ANN: WinPython v2.7.3.0

[Pierre Raybaut]

Hi all,

I'm pleased to introduce my new contribution to the Python community: WinPython.

WinPython v2.7.3.0 has been released and is available for 32-bit and
64-bit Windows platforms:
http://code.google.com/p/winpython/

WinPython is a free open-source portable distribution of Python for
Windows, designed for scientists.

It is a full-featured (see
http://code.google.com/p/winpython/wiki/PackageIndex) Python-based
scientific environment:
* Designed for scientists (thanks to the integrated libraries NumPy,
SciPy, Matplotlib, guiqwt, etc.:
* Regular *scientific users*: interactive data processing and
visualization using Python with Spyder
* *Advanced scientific users and software developers*: Python
applications development with Spyder, version control with Mercurial
and other development tools (like gettext)
* *Portable*: preconfigured, it should run out of the box on any
machine under Windows (without any installation requirements) and the
folder containing WinPython can be moved to any location (local,
network or removable drive)
* *Flexible*: one can install (or should I write "use" as it's
portable) as many WinPython versions as necessary (like isolated and
self-consistent environments), even if those versions are running
different versions of Python (2.7, 3.x in the near future) or
different architectures (32bit or 64bit) on the same machine
* *Customizable*: using the integrated package manager (wppm, as
WinPython Package Manager), it's possible to install, uninstall or
upgrade Python packages (see
http://code.google.com/p/winpython/wiki/WPPM for more details on
supported package formats).

*WinPython is not an attempt to replace Python(x,y)*, this is just
something different (see
http://code.google.com/p/winpython/wiki/Roadmap): more flexible,
easier to maintain, movable and less invasive for the OS, but
certainly less user-friendly, with less packages/contents and without
any integration to Windows explorer [*].

[*] Actually there is an optional integration into Windows explorer,
providing the same features as the official Python installer regarding
file associations and context menu entry (this option may be activated
through the WinPython Control Panel).

Enjoy!
-Pierre

[todd rme]

Sounds great, I will definitely check it out.

-Todd

[Pierre Raybaut]

Hi,

Could you please post everything related to WinPython on the WinPython discussion group?

Here it is:

https://groups.google.com/group/winpython

Thanks for reporting this.

Cheers,

-Pierre

2012/10/12 Indranil Sinharoy <indranil...@gmail.com>

WinPython looks very promising to me. I seriously think it has great potential. I just tried both versions (64 bit and 32-bit) on my Windows 64-bit machine and I have a couple of questions that I will ask here anyways --

1. I really loved the concept of the package manager. However, when I tried to uninstall PyWin32  217 (I have briefly explained why I wanted to uninstall pywin32 217 below), I got the following error message:

Unable to uninstall pywin32 217.

Error message:

[Error 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\EXECUTABLES&PROGRAMS\\WinPython\\WinPython-32bit-2.7.3.1\\python-2.7.3\\Lib\\site-packages\\win32\\win32gui.pyd'

 (I have also placed a screen-shot of the message here)

 

Also, following the above error message, I was unable to lunch the WinPython control panel ever again (not sure what's happening there)

2.  How do I change the font size of the text in IPython (running within WinPython)? Also, the usual Ctrl+= to zoom in didn't work.

-- Indranil.

Reason I wanted to uninstall PyWin32 217 is that "import dde" doesn't work since build 214 for the 32-bit version of pywin32 (and it never worked for the 64-bit version of pywin32). [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=From_noreply%40sourceforge.net_Wed_Oct_19_18%3A10%3A35_2011&forum_name=pywin32-bugs]. I really require the dde module for some projects that I am working on. So, I would like to uninstall PyWin32 217 and install build 213.

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[Indranil Sinharoy]

Oops!! My bad! I am sorry :-) [I just got carried away. I blame the software for this ... it is awesome. Thanks!]