On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:53 PM, oyster <lepto.python@gmail.com> wrote:

for example in scipy version = '0.5.1', the 'PREREQUISITES' section of INSTALL.txt says 'NumPy__ 1.0b1 or newer', but when I install numpy version='1.0.4', and run scipy, I get [code] h:\sap-24\bin\lib\site-packages\scipy\misc\__init__.py:25: DeprecationWarning: ScipyTest is now called NumpyTest; please update your code test = ScipyTest().test RuntimeError: module compiled against version 1000002 of C-API but this version of numpy is 1000009 [/code]

There are two problems: - scipy and numpy must be compatible feature-wise (that is a version S of scipy requires at least a version of N of numpy), that is API compatibility. If S and N are API compatible, you should be able to build and use them together. That's what is mentioned in the INSTALL.txt - ABI compatibility, that is if you build scipy against a given version of numpy N1, will it work with a version N2 without recompilation; that's what you see in your case. API compatibility is necessary but not sufficient for ABI compatibility. For some time, I think we just raise the error you are seeing when the version did not match exactly. But someone (Stefan) worked in this, and maybe this won't happen for future versions. David