Python in sci/tech applications

[John Coleman]

Robert Kern wrote:
> John Coleman wrote:
> > Maybe I don't know what I'm looking for, but I downloaded Enthought a
> > few days ago and don't seem to find MinGW on my system. There are 2
> > relatively small (totalling about 13 kb IIRC) *python* files deeply
> > buried in the distribution with mingw in their filename but nothing
> > like a gcc compiler. I've mostly used visual studio or code warrior for
> > C compiling, so again - maybe I don't know what I am looking for.
>
> It is in c:\Python24\Enthought\mingw32\, IIRC (I don't have it in front of me).
> Add c:\Python24\Enthought\mingw32\bin\ to your PATH environment variable, and
> gcc.exe should be executable.
>
I have no such sub-directory. I'll try an uninstall-install. When I did
the original installation the installer hung at the end and I had to
manually close it. The Python interpreter was there and worked properly
and all of the goodies like numby and chaco were there so I wrote it
off as nothing more then a failure to close properly, but evidently I
missed an essential part of the installation.

-John Coleman


> --
> 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