Oops!! My bad! I am sorry :-) [I just got carried away. I blame the 
software for this ... it is awesome. Thanks!]

On Friday, October 12, 2012 2:13:38 AM UTC-5, Pierre Raybaut wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Could you please post everything related to WinPython on the WinPython 
> discussion group?
>
> Here it is:
> https://groups.google.com/group/winpython
>
> Thanks for reporting this.
>
> Cheers,
> -Pierre
>
> 2012/10/12 Indranil Sinharoy <[email protected] <javascript:>>
>
>> WinPython looks very promising to me. I seriously think it has great 
>> potential. I just tried both versions (64 bit and 32-bit) on my Windows 
>> 64-bit machine and I have a couple of questions that I will ask here 
>> anyways --
>>
>> 1. I really loved the concept of the package manager. However, when I 
>> tried to uninstall PyWin32  217 (I have briefly explained why I wanted to 
>> uninstall pywin32 217 below), I got the following error message:
>>
>> Unable to uninstall pywin32 217.
>> Error message:
>> [Error 5] Access is denied: 
>> 'C:\\EXECUTABLES&PROGRAMS\\WinPython\\WinPython-32bit-2.7.3.1\\python-2.7.3\\Lib\\site-packages\\win32\\win32gui.pyd'
>>
>>
>>  (I have also placed a screen-shot of the message here)
>>
>>  
>>
>>
>> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S_QaUxqZh6A/UHdA4sAxtFI/AAAAAAAAA3o/j56xQ-Ly-rQ/s1600/pywin32uninstall.png>
>> Also, following the above error message, I was unable to lunch the 
>> WinPython control panel ever again (not sure what's happening there)
>>
>> 2.  How do I change the font size of the text in IPython (running within 
>> WinPython)? Also, the usual Ctrl+= to zoom in didn't work.
>>
>>
>> -- Indranil.
>>
>> Reason I wanted to uninstall PyWin32 217 is that "import dde" doesn't 
>> work since build 214 for the 32-bit version of pywin32 (and it never worked 
>> for the 64-bit version of pywin32). [
>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=From_noreply%40sourceforge.net_Wed_Oct_19_18%3A10%3A35_2011&forum_name=pywin32-bugs].
>>  
>> I really require the dde module for some projects that I am working on. So, 
>> I would like to uninstall PyWin32 217 and install build 213.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, September 24, 2012 2:22:39 PM UTC-5, Pierre Raybaut wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all, 
>>>
>>> I'm pleased to introduce my new contribution to the Python community: 
>>> WinPython. 
>>>
>>> WinPython v2.7.3.0 has been released and is available for 32-bit and 
>>> 64-bit Windows platforms: 
>>> http://code.google.com/p/**winpython/<http://code.google.com/p/winpython/> 
>>>
>>> WinPython is a free open-source portable distribution of Python for 
>>> Windows, designed for scientists. 
>>>
>>> It is a full-featured (see 
>>> http://code.google.com/p/**winpython/wiki/PackageIndex<http://code.google.com/p/winpython/wiki/PackageIndex>)
>>>  
>>> Python-based 
>>> scientific environment: 
>>>   * Designed for scientists (thanks to the integrated libraries NumPy, 
>>> SciPy, Matplotlib, guiqwt, etc.: 
>>>     * Regular *scientific users*: interactive data processing and 
>>> visualization using Python with Spyder 
>>>     * *Advanced scientific users and software developers*: Python 
>>> applications development with Spyder, version control with Mercurial 
>>> and other development tools (like gettext) 
>>>   * *Portable*: preconfigured, it should run out of the box on any 
>>> machine under Windows (without any installation requirements) and the 
>>> folder containing WinPython can be moved to any location (local, 
>>> network or removable drive) 
>>>   * *Flexible*: one can install (or should I write "use" as it's 
>>> portable) as many WinPython versions as necessary (like isolated and 
>>> self-consistent environments), even if those versions are running 
>>> different versions of Python (2.7, 3.x in the near future) or 
>>> different architectures (32bit or 64bit) on the same machine 
>>>   * *Customizable*: using the integrated package manager (wppm, as 
>>> WinPython Package Manager), it's possible to install, uninstall or 
>>> upgrade Python packages (see 
>>> http://code.google.com/p/**winpython/wiki/WPPM<http://code.google.com/p/winpython/wiki/WPPM>for
>>>  more details on 
>>> supported package formats). 
>>>
>>> *WinPython is not an attempt to replace Python(x,y)*, this is just 
>>> something different (see 
>>> http://code.google.com/p/**winpython/wiki/Roadmap<http://code.google.com/p/winpython/wiki/Roadmap>):
>>>  
>>> more flexible, 
>>> easier to maintain, movable and less invasive for the OS, but 
>>> certainly less user-friendly, with less packages/contents and without 
>>> any integration to Windows explorer [*]. 
>>>
>>> [*] Actually there is an optional integration into Windows explorer, 
>>> providing the same features as the official Python installer regarding 
>>> file associations and context menu entry (this option may be activated 
>>> through the WinPython Control Panel). 
>>>
>>> Enjoy! 
>>> -Pierre 
>>>
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