EPD 6.1: MKL on Linux, Windows, & OSX
There were several reasons we initially decided to include MKL, an extensively threaded, highly optimized library, in the Enthought Python Distribution. For one thing, we like that MKL detects the...
View ArticleExperimental PySide support in ETS
Over the last couple of weeks I added support for PySide to the majority of the ETS packages, including Traits, Chaco and Enable. I have only tested personally with Ubuntu 10.10 and PySide Beta 1, but...
View ArticleEPD 7.2 released
I am pleased to announce the release of Enthought Python Distribution, EPD version 7.2, along with its “EPD Free” counterpart. The highlights of this release are: the addition of GDAL and updates to...
View ArticleJust released! EPD 7.3 plus beta version of EPD 8.0
Today we have for you not just one, but two exciting EPD releases — an update of EPD to 7.3 and a beta release previewing new features coming in EPD 8.0. The EPD 7.3 update adds several new packages...
View ArticleDataGotham…Complete!
Well, DataGotham is over. The conference featured a wide cross section of the data community in NYC. Talks spanned topics from “urban science” to “finding racism on FourSquare” to “creating an API for...
View ArticleWelcome EdX students!
Welcome to EPDFree EdX students! We are honored to partner with EdX to offer up a Python environment you can use for your studies. For those of you who don’t know, “EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise...
View Article“Why We Built Enthought Canopy, An Inside Look” Recorded Webinar
We posted a recording of a 30 minute webinar that we did on the 20th that covers what Canopy is and why we developed it. There’s a few minutes of Brett Murphy(Product Manager at Enthought) discussing...
View ArticleFor all you EPD Users: Canopy v1.1
EPD (Enthought Python Distribution) provided a simple install of Python for scientific computing on the major platforms: Windows, Linux and Mac-OS. Those looking for a clean, straightforward Python...
View ArticleInstalling and Managing a Central Python Install with Enthought Canopy v1.1
Author: Jason McCampbell In the last post we talked about virtual environments and how we have back-ported venv from Python 3 and extended it in Canopy 1.1. This post will now walk through how we use...
View ArticlePyQL and QuantLib: A Comprehensive Finance Framework
Authors: Kelsey Jordahl, Brett Murphy Earlier this month at the first New York Finance Python User’s Group (NY FPUG) meetup, Kelsey Jordahl talked about how PyQL streamlines the development of...
View ArticleEnthought Tool Suite Release 4.4 (Traits, Chaco, and more)
Authors: The ETS Developers We’re happy to announce the release of multiple major projects, including: Traits 4.4.0 Chaco 4.4.1 TraitsUI 4.4.0 Envisage 4.4.0 Pyface 4.4.0 Codetools 4.2.0 ETS 4.4.1...
View ArticleEnthought Canopy v1.2 is Out: PTVS, Mavericks, and Qt
Author: Jason McCampbell Canopy 1.2 is out! The release of Mac OS “Mavericks” as a free update broke a few features, primarily IPython, so we held the release to try to make sure everything worked....
View ArticleEPD 7.2 released
I am pleased to announce the release of Enthought Python Distribution, EPD version 7.2, along with its “EPD Free” counterpart. The highlights of this release are: the addition of GDAL and updates to...
View ArticleJust released! EPD 7.3 plus beta version of EPD 8.0
Today we have for you not just one, but two exciting EPD releases — an update of EPD to 7.3 and a beta release previewing new features coming in EPD 8.0. The EPD 7.3 update adds several new packages...
View ArticleDataGotham…Complete!
Well, DataGotham is over. The conference featured a wide cross section of the data community in NYC. Talks spanned topics from “urban science” to “finding racism on FourSquare” to “creating an API for...
View ArticleWelcome EdX students!
Welcome to EPDFree EdX students! We are honored to partner with EdX to offer up a Python environment you can use for your studies. For those of you who don’t know, “EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise...
View Article“Why We Built Enthought Canopy, An Inside Look” Recorded Webinar
We posted a recording of a 30 minute webinar that we did on the 20th that covers what Canopy is and why we developed it. There’s a few minutes of Brett Murphy(Product Manager at Enthought) discussing...
View ArticleFor all you EPD Users: Canopy v1.1
EPD (Enthought Python Distribution) provided a simple install of Python for scientific computing on the major platforms: Windows, Linux and Mac-OS. Those looking for a clean, straightforward Python...
View ArticleInstalling and Managing a Central Python Install with Enthought Canopy v1.1
Author: Jason McCampbell In the last post we talked about virtual environments and how we have back-ported venv from Python 3 and extended it in Canopy 1.1. This post will now walk through how we use...
View ArticlePyQL and QuantLib: A Comprehensive Finance Framework
Authors: Kelsey Jordahl, Brett Murphy Earlier this month at the first New York Finance Python User’s Group (NY FPUG) meetup, Kelsey Jordahl talked about how PyQL streamlines the development of...
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