On: Ask HN: Alternative to Matlab for control system design?

[notaddicted]

Also look here for extra packages for octave: http://octave.sourceforge.net/

[mechanician → notaddicted]

Thanks. Since I have started to learn Python (for a different application), is there any way to get these Matlab-like functions in Python?

[gila → mechanician]

have a look and see if scipy/numpy have what you want

matplotlib comes pretty close to the nice plots if you need those