Virtualenv in Windows

Virtualenv in Windows

setting up and installing from binaries

Create virtualenv

Install numpy, scipy, matplotlib

numpy and scipy

extract installer exe file from superpack and easy_install http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6114115/windows-virtualenv-pip-numpy-problems-when-installing-numpy?rq=1

I extracted the installer exe files by running the superpack installer, hit next, hit cancel at the screen with the install path, then look at details to find the path of the extracted installer exe file. That file can be easy_installed.

matplotlib

can be easy_installed from install exe file.

Copy tcl and tk

problem: Idle and tkagg backend of matplotlib don't work

copy directories from regular python install to the virtualenv, symlink didn't work for me because of permission problems

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4924068/how-to-launch-python-idle-from-a-virtual-environment-virtualenv