Re: [Visualpython-users] Is there anyway to uninstall vPython?

[kirby u. <kir...@gm...>]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 9:25 AM, M Hartman <air...@ho...> wrote:
> Hello, I recently installed vPython using the installer for Windows 7 64bit
> (Python 3.2) and I noticed that it didn't put a link on my desktop for
> VIDLE. So, I thought that I'd try the bouncing ball example from the vPython
> library in my favorite editor and it simply doesn't work. I get error
> messages over the very first 'from visual import *' (and just about
> everything else). I'm not sure what's going on but I'd like to somehow
> remove vPython and I can't find a clear way to do that, without uninstalling
> my whole Python distribution. Is there anyway to just get rid of the vPython
> while keeping the Python distro that it installed into? Thanks.
>

I'm pretty sure it installs almost everything in your
python32/Lib/site-packages/visual directory and you
can just drag and drop that into your trash or however
you prefer to delete file trees.  Is there a DLL that
goes somewhere?  Shouldn't matter much.

As it so happens, I just installed 32bit Python 3.2
with Visual on WinXP yesterday.  I wanted to see
of the editor PyCharm from JetBrains, which many
are gravitating towards ($29 for academic license),
would handle visual programs without hiccups.  So
far so good.

Ideally, visual could be adding to an existing
virtualenv with pip install vpython but that didn't
work, nor pip install visual.  But may it should be
broken down into step with pip install numpy
separate.

http://www.thisisthegreenroom.com/2011/installing-python-numpy-scipy-matplotlib-and-ipython-on-lion/

shows the kind of install process that visual could
be a part of if there were a pip install way to get it.

I recommend that if you try with Win7 again, you
learn about virtualenv and how to install visual in just
one of your many virtual Python environments.  It's
a way to isolate importables and dependencies.

Kirby