2014-03-18 Python 3.4, no need to install pip anymore
The new version Python 3.4 was just released. One interesting change is that modules pip and setuptools are now part of the distribution. That's a relief. Every module which does not requires C++ compilation can now be installed using pip install [module] without any extra step. On Windows, the others modules can still be installed from this page: Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages unless you want to use Visual Studio to compile them. In this case, I recommend reading this page: Module Madness: installing Python modules on Windows.
Among the unexpected changes, the instruction #coding:latin-1 is not allowed anymore. The C++ API changed a little bit. It made me make a change to pythonnet to compile it with Python 3.4: pythonnet migration to Python 3.4. Hopefully, the installation of executables (sometimes after looking for them) could become easier with Python Wheels. Maybe WinPython will follow soon.
However, I recommend to wait a little bit before switching. I had some weird behaviour with matplotlib: no failure with Python 3.3 but a failure while drawing a second graph with Python 3.4.
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Xavier Dupré
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