Open source Enthought Python alternative [closed]

Question

I used Enthought's python distribution as a graduate student for data analysis and really enjoyed it. But I've recently taken a job which takes away my ability to use it.

I prefer Python for initial scoping and cleaning the data, and R for the stats side. Part of the impetus for wanting this though, is trying out pandas. And other other part is I don't have proper license (or the means to pay), which is clearly a problem.

So is there some other well put together easy to install Python distribution that I can get numpy, scipy, sci-kits, and all the other goodness?

Answer 1

If you are one Windows, I can advise pythonxy for an easy and painless installation of Python and the core scientific libraries.

It is quite large and contains a lot of packages, which you maybe do not need, but at the installation, you can opt to choose which libraries to install.

Answer 2

Have you seen EPD free?

From the enthought website:

Our new lightweight distribution of scientific Python essentials: SciPy, NumPy, IPython, matplotlib, Traits, & Chaco

it might be enough to get you started.