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Copyright © 2012-2013 Pierre Raybaut

Copyright © 2014-2019+ The Winpython development teamhttps://github.com/winpython/

Licensed under the terms of the MIT License(see winpython/__init__.py for details)

WinPython is a portable distribution of the Python programminglanguage for Windows (http://winpython.github.io).

This is the winpython Python package, not the distribution itself.It includes two main features:

WinPython Package Manager (WPPM)

a graphical layer over pip, to let you install/uninstallto your WinPython distribution any standard Python package builtas source (e.g. "dummypackage-2.1.zip" or "dummypackage-2.1.tar.gz")or as wheel (e.g. "dummypackage-2.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl")

WinPython build toolchain

make.py is the script used tobuild a WinPython distribution from (almost) scratch.

• Python2 >= 2.7 or Python3 >= 3.4 (Python>= 3.7 is recommended)
• PyQt5 >= 5.6 or PySide2>=5.11 (PyQt5 >=5.12 or Pyside2 >= 5.12 is recommended)

• NSIS (for icon shortcut creations, installer can be NSIS, INNO, 7-Zip, or nothing)
• PyQt5 or Pyside2 is required to execute WinPython Control Panel/Ipython Qt and Qt related packages.if not installed, these packages will not execute.

From the source package (see section 'Building dependencies'), you mayinstall WinPython using the integrated setup.py script based on Pythonstandard library distutils with the following command:

python setup.py install

Note that distutils doesnot uninstall previous versions of Pythonpackages: it simply copies files on top of an existing installation.When using this command, it is thus highly recommended to uninstallmanually any previous version of WinPython by removing the associateddirectory ('winpython' in your site-packages directory).

From the Python package index, you may simply install WinPythonandupgrade an existing installation using pip:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi

But the easiest way to install the last stable release of WinPython isby using an executable installer:http://winpython.github.io/

• Downloads:https://sourceforge.net/projects/winpython/files/
• Development, bug reports and feature requests:https://github.com/winpython/winpython
• Discussions:http://groups.google.com/group/winpython