How does Enthought Canopy compare to Anaconda?

Disclaimer: I work at Enthought. Both Canopy and Anaconda provide you a basic Python distribution with commonly used packages like NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, matplotlib, etc. already installed. read more

Anaconda Anaconda gives you a Python distribution and a package manager. The good things about Anaconda is that it supports both Python 2 & 3, which Canopy right now does not. Canopy Canopy is also Python distribution, and also comes with an editor. read more

For simulations of some nonlinear systems in python, what are the pros and cons of Anaconda and Enthought Canopy, and also the IDE best suited (if any) for either of them. read more

Anaconda and Jupyter notebook now supports a lot of packages, so it is now my default scripting program. I last tried Enthought Canopy in Jan 2015. It works fine on my office computer, but it is very laggy on my personal macbook. read more