IDL vs. PythonHere is a really nice listing of the pros and cons of IDL and Python for astronomers. It’s an Appendix of the Python tutorial Using Python for Interactive Data Analysis by Greenfield and Jedrzejewski at STScI. Data and scripts for the examples and exercises in the tutorial are available at scipy.org. Update 28 Jan 2010: We’ve transferred this article to the wiki so that it can be updated as Python
