[AstroPy] Installing scisoft on MacOS 10.6.7

[Russell Owen]

You might try my unofficial binary -- which (like most binary installers) is meant to be used with python.org's 32-bit python:
<http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/rowen/python/>

-- Russell

On Sep 21, 2011, at 8:01 AM, David Johnston wrote:

> I have been trying to install the usual set of numerical packages on my Mac laptop, numpy, scipy, matplotlib etc. I also need to be able to read jpegs and other images so I see that I probably need PIL. 
> 
> My system is Mac OSX 10.6.7 (Snow Leopard). This is intel core duo hardware. 
> 
> After much work, I have been able to install numpy, scipy, matplotlib but not PIL. This is under python 2.6.6. numpy 1.5.1, scipy 0.9.0, matplotlib 1.0.0. PIL.Image.VERSION=1.1.7
> 
> I can import PIL but it fails to work properly. I think I got it to read jpeg files but the Image.show() method failed with
>  raise ImportError("The _imaging C module is not installed")
> 
> I also tried installing scisoft. I tried versions 2011.17.1 and 2011.1.1. Neither were able to import  scipy. 
> 
> Anyone have any advise for installing scisoft on 10.6.7 or some alternative?
> Dave
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