hello; I have not used Python before directly, but I am interested in trying it. I've read some good things about it. ( I am mainly interested in trying it for some scientific applications and simulation.)
I am running on windowz. I have downloaded and installed 2.5.1 Python. my question is on installing additional packages. What is the easiest way to do that? I read about python 'eggs' (like jar files for Java), and easyInstall script, and such. Is there some automated way to install Python packages? a manual/document I could read that describes step by step how to do that? Browsing the documentation, there does not seem to be something specific there (other than saying download this tar file and install it). I like how one can install additional packages in 'R' . In 'R' one can do all that from the user interface for R by a pull-down menu, then one selects a mirror site, then one can see all the packages available, then select the package to download, and the rest is done automatically. (The package is downloaded, installed, etc...) Anything like that exists for Python? Btw, I have VM running on windowz, and so I can run Python on Ubuntu linux on that VM, would be easier to install additional Python packages there, may be using that nice GUI based Ubuntu package manager to do that? thanks, Nasser -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
