Enthought Python Distribution Comes to Mac OS X

By drewmccormack at Mon, Jul 7 2008 11:12am |

Vincent Noel has a post on his blog about the release — in beta form — of the Enthought Python Distribution. Like the SAGE distribution, which we covered recently, Enthought's distribution is an all-options-included installation of Python for scientists.

Noel describes the differences between the two packages in his post:

EPD is smaller than SAGE in size and also includes tons of good science stuff. There’s some overlap between the two distributions (for instance, both include the NumPy/SciPy/Matplotlib triad as well as IPython), but EPD is more geared towards observation data analysis and visualization.

Both SAGE and Enthought's package are welcome additions to the arsenal of Mac scientists.

Comments

Tue, 2008-07-08 15:04 — pierredebuyl

Installation location, PATH, ...

Hello, I welcome an integrated python distribution. Especially as an os integrated bundle doesn't fit scientific needs! I have questions to which I couldn't find answers on Enthought website. So if anyone can help :
- Where do all the files go ? Is it a mac bundle or is it more like a fink install (in /usr or /usr/local) ?
- What compiler do I need (os X's gcc or something else) ? If needed: os 10.4 on intel.
- And an off-topic one : mingw is installed, so could I build python packages including C (or fortran ?) code ?

Thanks, Pierre

Tue, 2008-07-08 17:04 — oscarruitt

mingw

I don't know why mingw is included, since AFAIK it useful only on Windows, to allow GNU stuff to work there.

Tue, 2008-07-08 17:09 — AndresGM

Re: Installation location, PATH, ...

I installed EPD this morning on a Core 2 Duo iMac. The installer puts everything in /Library/Frameworks/... just as the python.org installer. I far as I can tell everything worked very well. The version of numpy is 1.0.4 which is the previous release, hopefully when it comes out of Beta it will have the latest version.

You don't need a compiler to install EPD.

Andres