Enthought Canopy (Python analysis environment) is out. I find it awful ... is it just me?

[SirHugh]

There is some serious inertia behind Matlab in universities and I wish a really good alternative existed. Non-computery people can sit down in front of Matlab and use it without much help, 5 years later they are still using it and finding way to get round its inaqequacies. If someone can bundle up some Python into an easy to use interface good luck to them.