this plotting script that print circle point coordinates to the stdout stream for reviewinstead of rendering them in gui see the plottertext py scripts in the clock' directory here is the sort of output they produce when plotting and points on circle that is points wide and highthe output format is simplypointnumber angle (xcoordinateycoordinateand assumes that the circle is centered at coordinate ( , ) ( ( - (- ( ( ( ( ( - ( - ( - (- - (- - (- (- (- ( numeric python tools if you do enough number crunching to have followed this section' abbreviated geometry lessonyou will probably also be interested in exploring the numpy numeric programming extension for python it adds things such as vector objects and advanced mathematical operationseffectively turning python into scientific/numeric programming tool that supports efficient numerical array computationsand it has been compared to matlab numpy has been used effectively by many organizationsincluding lawrence livermore and los alamos national labs--in many casesallowing python with numpy to replace legacy fortran code numpy must be fetched and installed separatelysee python' website for links on the webyou'll also find related numeric tools ( scipy)as well as visualization and animation tools ( pyopenglblendermayavtkand vpythonat this writingnumpy (like the many numeric packages that depend upon itis officially available for python onlybut version that supports both versions and is in early development release form besides the math modulepython itself also has built-in complex number type for engineering worka fixed-precision decimal type added in release and rational fraction type added in and see the library manual and python language fundamentals books such as learning python for details complete gui programs