<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Downey, Patrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:PDowney@urban.org">PDowney@urban.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm currently running Python version 2.7 through IDLE on a Windows machine.<br>
I'm trying to use numpy and scipy. I downloaded both modules from the scipy<br>
website and unzipped the files into:<br>
C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages<br></blockquote></div><br>That is not the typical way to install software on windows, even python modules. Typically, software on windows is distributed in an installer. Numpy and Scipy are the same way. You could download the source code, compile it, and install it from there, but that's pretty unusual on windows.<br>
<br>So. Remove whatever you have unzipped into site-packages. Download the numpy and scipy installers. Run them. That should be it.<br><br>Numpy installer: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.6.1/numpy-1.6.1-win32-superpack-python2.7.exe/download">http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.6.1/numpy-1.6.1-win32-superpack-python2.7.exe/download</a><br>
<br>Scipy installer: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/0.10.0/scipy-0.10.0-win32-superpack-python2.7.exe/download">http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/0.10.0/scipy-0.10.0-win32-superpack-python2.7.exe/download</a><br>
<br>If you really do want to compile scipy and numpy from source, there are instructions on getting all the required tools here: <a href="http://scipy.org/Installing_SciPy/Windows">http://scipy.org/Installing_SciPy/Windows</a><br>
<br>-- <br>
Jerry<br><br>PS: There *are* python packages out there that have to just be unzipped into site-packages. Those projects are typically pure-python modules without any C code to compile. Numpy and Scipy aren't among them, though. There are other packages that expect you to download them, extract them to a temp directory, then run "python setup.py install". To know for sure how to install a particular package, you'll need to dig around a bit for installation instructions for that particular package.<br>
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