WPPM

now maintained at https://github.com/winpython/winpython/wiki/WPPM

Legacy version below:

Key features

WinPython is a portable distribution of Python. In other words, even if it provides a working Python environment, WinPython does not install Python on your machine. As a consequence, it's not possible to install packages using standard Python installers (these installers will look for Python in Windows registry and won't find it).

That's why I wrote the WinPython Package Manager (WPPM), a Python program handling package managing tasks (install, uninstall or upgrade packages) for a portable Python distribution.

WPPM currently supports the following Python package formats:

• Standard executable installers: distutils wininst (installer filename has the form: foo-1.0.win32-py2.7.exe)
• Standard source distributions[1]: distutils sdist (archive filename has the form: foo-1.0.tar.gz) -- but only for pure-Python packages

[1] This feature was implemented in WPPM v0.2dev included in WinPython v2.7.3.0beta3

Get Python packages

The main website for finding and downloading Python packages is obviously PyPI, the Python Package Index.

Please note that Christoph Gohlke's Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages provides tons of ready-to-install distutils packages.

WPPM GUI frontend

WPPM has a GUI frontend which is known as the WinPython Control Panel.