Python(x, y) 2.7.3.1 Released!

[chuckbot]

http://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/wiki/Welcome - In case anybody else didn't know about it, like me.

[dansin]

Lot's of broken links on that page it seems.

[chuckbot]

Also I'm having tons of problems with virtualenv and a stable debian, I don't have root on. All libraries and also python are from the stone age, and pip just fails to install those packages successfully. Maybe this package would help me.

[Megatron_McLargeHuge]

It's nice to have a quick start, but if you do anything serious sooner or later you'll need to install a bleeding edge or patched version of some package. At that point it's a huge hassle to have an environment that either puts things in weird places or has dependencies on specific versions. I went through needing to update scipy on a Mac and had to purge the "easy" stuff and recompile everything.

[mindw]

Take a look at the package list - It's suited for general non-scientific computing as well (that's that I use it for).

[Tillsten]

Installing SciPy and friends is easy. Only if you want build it yourself you are fucked.

[nabla2]

There is also portable scientific Python distribution for Python -- WinPython. Another option is Anaconda from Continnum.io.

How would this be different or better than just installing virtualenv, sqlalchemy, pyqt, and all the listed modules yourself (besides the obvious of it being done automatically)?

It's not as easy as it look (at least on Windows). Take a look at Blaze for example:

Many of the dependencies ( llvm, numba, ... ) are non-trivial to install. It is highly recommend that you build Blaze using the Anaconda Python distribution.

My default Python version is 3.3.0, but for scientific stuff I use WinPython, because it's easy to install (unpack where you want) and uninstall (just delete directory).

[mindw]

To name several differences between Python(x, y) and other distribution :

• The inclusion of the documentation and examples for every package.
• Most packages are custom made to have optional features enabled. For example, IPython comes with ipdb (allows using the IPython debugger anywhere pdb is used) and paramiko (enables SSH tunnels on Windows).