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For some reason I seem to be channeling British TV adverts of the past this morning... so far it's been "Topic" (hence the, erm, topic of this entry) and earlier it was Kia-Ora (which was, as you may recall, too orangey for crows).
Bob/entrepum pointed me at the Enthought Python distribution a while ago, and it's as Chock Full O' Nuts as anything I've seen in a long while. You gets yer basic Python plus wxWindows, PIL, VTK, etc, etc. A complete suite of packages all together, aimed (it seems to me) at those using Python in a data-analysis kinda way (otherwise, why the Fortran-Python interface generator). Being a loosely typed sort of person myself, I could live without Traits but in general it's a nice bundle.
I got an email from a friend asking for a couple of little utilities I'd mentioned to him, so I duly sent him the Python source. Then I had to point him at a distribution (he's a systems guy, not a programmer, so he doesn't install a language on his machines as step 3 after opening the box). Then I had to find him links to a couple of packages I'd used which weren't in the distro. And so on, and so forth. This happened right before I had the time to type Enthought into Google and find their site, which made me appreciate how rounded a collection they've put together. As soon as they get 2.3.4 in there, I'll probably replace ActiveState with it entirely. It's the package you can install between meals, without losing your appetite.
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