A portable and highly flexible Python distribution.
WinPython is a distribution of the Python programming language that is designed to be used by scientists. The package is designed to be more flexible than Python(x,y) and to be easily moved to a different location without affecting its functionality.
The user can have multiple distributions on the same computer in order to perform tests and to personalize each version with specific Python package.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Common bugfix: launchers were accidently generated with the regular NSIS build. As a consequence, when the PATH environment variable was too long, it was truncated when modified by the launchers ("Command prompt.exe", "Python interpreter.exe", etc.). Building WinPython requires the "large strings" build of NSIS.
Internals: · Added support for Environment Variables customization using the new settings\winpython.ini configuration file (see here for more details).
Python packages: New packages: · MarkupSafe 0.18 (Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python) · statsmodels 0.4.3 (Statistical computations and models for use with SciPy)
Upgraded packages: · distribute 0.6.40 ? 0.6.43 (Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages - easily) · spyder 2.3.0dev1 ? 2.3.0dev3 (Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment: designed for interactive computing and data visualisation with a simple and intuitive user interface) · tables 3.0.0rc2 ? 3.0.0rc3 (Package based on HDF5 library for managing hierarchical datasets (extremely large amounts of data)) · winpython 0.14 ? 0.15 (WinPython distribution tools, including WPPM (package manager))