Commit eaf3f94f authored by Stefan Behnel's avatar Stefan Behnel

add reference to Anaconda distribution (which also bundles Cython)

parent a6dd7125
Installing Cython
=================
Many scientific Python distributions, such as Enthought Canopy
[Canopy]_, Python(x,y) [Pythonxy]_, and Sage [Sage]_, bundle Cython
and no setup is needed. Note however that if your distribution ships a
version of Cython which is too old you can still use the instructions
below to update Cython. Everything in this tutorial should work with
Cython 0.11.2 and newer, unless a footnote says otherwise.
Many scientific Python distributions, such as Anaconda [Anaconda]_,
Enthought Canopy [Canopy]_, Python(x,y) [Pythonxy]_, and Sage [Sage]_,
bundle Cython and no setup is needed. Note however that if your
distribution ships a version of Cython which is too old you can still
use the instructions below to update Cython. Everything in this
tutorial should work with Cython 0.11.2 and newer, unless a footnote
says otherwise.
Unlike most Python software, Cython requires a C compiler to be
present on the system. The details of getting a C compiler varies
......@@ -43,9 +44,16 @@ able to fetch Cython from PyPI and install it using::
easy_install cython
or
::
pip install cython
For Windows there is also an executable installer available for
download.
.. [Anaconda] http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/
.. [Canopy] https://enthought.com/products/canopy/
.. [Pythonxy] http://www.pythonxy.com/
.. [Sage] W. Stein et al., Sage Mathematics Software, http://sagemath.org
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