These days however with all the AI coding tools that are available, it probably makes more sense to just ask Claude to port the Matlab/Octave script to Python and directly integrate it into your program. Numpy/Scipy often provide drop-in replacements for Matlab functions, even the names are the same in some cases.
I have gone further and asked AI to port working but somewhat slow numerical scripts to C++ and it's completely effortless and very low risk when you have the original implementation as test.
I have gone further and asked AI to port working but somewhat slow numerical scripts to C++ and it's completely effortless and very low risk when you have the original implementation as test.