Given that I started and abandoned a transliteration of processing to Python, I’m interested in how others might approach the challenge. I just found out about the pyprocessing project. They’ve taken the path of using OpenGL, through pyglet, which I thought about but couldn’t figure out how the bit blitting capabilities of processing would work. That’s not saying much, since I have exceedingly minimal knowledge of OpenGL.
I’ll have to take pyprocessing out for a test drive. I hope the project succeeds. If it works well the toolkit would be a nice complement to Python’s emerging heavy duty data processing capabilities: cf. Numpy, SciPy, and pandas.