What is Picalo’s relationship to Python?
Picalo is built in Python the same way a book is built in English or some other language. More technically, Picalo is a set of modules, functions, and routines built on top of Python. A casual reviewer of Picalo may not see the power of extending the Python language. Python alone is a very powerful data and text analysis platform — Picalo adds the Table type and many data analysis functions to the core Python language. Because Picalo is built in a professional language, anything you can do in Python you can do in Picalo (this turns out to be a lot!). There are thousands upon thousands of Python routines available for free download from the Internet.
