Python in sci/tech applications

[Robert Kern]

bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:
> mattf:
>> 3) -There's a problem with development under Windows.
> 
> It's possibile to compile Python with MinGW, and to create extensions
> with it. So some site can host a single zip file that contains both
> MinGW and Python compiled with it, all ready and set. A person not much
> expert can then create compiled small extensions in a short time
> without too much complexities. (Or maybe the D language can be packed
> into that, instead of MinGW, to do similar things. D can be a good
> language used with Python) But then probably PIL, scipy, etc have to be
> compiled again for such alternative official or semi-official Python
> distribution.

With a few caveats, mingw will simply work with the standard 2.4 (and presumably 
2.5) interpreter. We distribute mingw set up to do this with our "Enthought 
Edition" Python distribution.

   http://code.enthought.com/enthon/

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco