title: MATLAB for Python programmers
body: <p>I've used <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATLAB" rel="noreferrer">MATLAB</a> on and off before, but I need to develop a good understanding of it now, and the language I'm most familiar with is Python. Care to describe a MATLAB language feature, idiom, best practice or philosophy as compared to Python?</p>
  
  <p>There's a terrific amount of buzz for and resources pertaining to going the opposite direction, the MATLAB to (Python + tools) conversion, but that's not the way I need to go.  Which data structures should I swap in, should I use classes, where might <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NumPy" rel="noreferrer">NumPy</a> intuition go wrong, etc.?</p>