On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:56 PM,
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Chris Barker
wrote: Hi folks.,
I did a little "intro to scipy" session as part of a larger Python class the other day, and was dismayed to find that "pip install numpy" still dosn't work on Windows.
Thanks mostly to Matthew Brett's work, the whole scipy stack is pip-installable on OS-X, it would be really nice if we had that for Windows.
And no, saying "you should go get Python(x,y) or Anaconda, or Canopy, or...) is really not a good solution. That is indeed the way to go if someone is primarily focusing on computational programming, but if you have a web developer, or someone new to Python for general use, they really should be able to just grab numpy and play around with it a bit without having to start all over again.
Unrelated to the pip/wheel discussion.
In my experience by far the easiest to get something running to play with is using Winpython. Download and unzip (and maybe add to system path) and most of the data analysis stack is available.
I haven't even bothered yet to properly install a full "system python" on my Windows machine. I'm just working with 3 winpython. (One even has Julia and IJulia included after following the installation instructions for a short time.)
+1 on WinPython. I have half a dozen "installations" of it, none registered with Windows. Jaime -- (\__/) ( O.o) ( > <) Este es Conejo. Copia a Conejo en tu firma y ayúdale en sus planes de dominación mundial.