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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I've been trying to install NumPy to run with Eclipse on Windows Vista. After installing (I thought) NumPy I was seeing:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:red'>ImportError: Error importing numpy: you should not try to import numpy from</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:red'> its source directory; please exit the numpy source tree, and relaunch</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:red'> your python intepreter from there.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I next tried to follow the instructions from the scipy.org website and downloaded and ran:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>numpy-1.7.1-win32-superpack-python27.exe<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This started up but I immediately saw the following dialog:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>---------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cannot install<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>---------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Python version 2.7 required, which was not found in the registry.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>---------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>---------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The next dialog prompted for a Python installation to use but the list box was empty and it would not allow me to enter a path.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is it absolutely necessary to build NumPy myself or is there a working installation out there? I know I'm doing something wrong but I don't know what it is. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated :).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Joseph A. Piccoli<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>joe13676@comcast.net<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>