On Nov 6, 2015, at 3:57 PM, Robert McGibbon <rmcgibbo@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm using the Python from the Miniconda installer with py35 released last week.

Then you should not expect it to be able to find compatible binary wheels on PyPi.

Pretty much the entire point of conda is to support Numpy and friends. It's actually really good that it DIDN'T go and install a binary wheel.

You want:

conda install numpy

Trust me on that :-)

There are some cases where pip installing a source package into a conda Python is fine -- but mostly only pure-Python packages.