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
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