EPD (Enthought Python Distribution) 4.0.300 Beta 3 available

[Robert Kern]

Disclosure: I work for Enthought.

Christopher Brewster wrote:
> I have always thought this idea very good, but if I download it and 
> install it (on my MacBook pro) will any conflicts occur with existing 
> bits and pieces of Python and its libraries?

For the Mac distribution, we have tried very carefully to keep EPD's Python 
separate from any previous installation. I believe the only thing that will get 
"overwritten" is that our bin/ directory inside our version of Python.framework 
will get prepended to your $PATH environment variable. This will be added to 
your ~/.bash_profile with a a descriptive comment. When you type

   $ python

at your Terminal prompt, you will get EPD's Python. To uninstall EPD, you can 
remove those lines in your ~/.bash_profile, delete 
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/4.0.300/, and delete 
"/Applications/EPD <something or other>/". Then your previous Python 
installation should be usable again.

To just use your previous Python installation without uninstalling EPD, just 
comment out our addition to ~/.bash_profile.

If you have more questions about EPD, please join us on the enthought-dev 
mailing list:

   https://mail.enthought.com/mailman/listinfo/enthought-dev

-- 
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