[Numpy-discussion] Sources more confusing in Python

[Steve Waterbury]

On 04/07/2013 05:02 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Daπid <davidmenhur at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7 April 2013 16:53, Happyman <bahtiyor_zohidov at mail.ru> wrote:
>
>> $pip install numpy # to install package "numpy"
>
> as a warning, last I checked pip did not support binary installs  ...

Guess you didn't check very recently ;) -- pip does indeed
support binary installs.

It's trivial to check:

waterbug at boson:~$ mkvirtualenv pip-test
New python executable in pip-test/bin/python
Installing 
distribute.............................................................................................................................................................................................done.
Installing pip...............done.
     <snip other virtualenvwrapper output>
(pip-test)waterbug at boson:~$ cdvirtualenv
(pip-test)waterbug at boson:~/envs/pip-test$ pip install PIL
Downloading/unpacking PIL
   Downloading PIL-1.1.7.tar.gz (506Kb): 506Kb downloaded
   Running setup.py egg_info for package PIL
     WARNING: '' not a valid package name; please use only.-separated 
package names in setup.py

Installing collected packages: PIL
   Running setup.py install for PIL
     WARNING: '' not a valid package name; please use only.-separated 
package names in setup.py
     building '_imaging' extension
     gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall 
-Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -DHAVE_LIBJPEG -DHAVE_LIBZ 
-I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -IlibImaging 
-I/home/waterbug/envs/pip-test/include -I/usr/local/include 
-I/usr/include -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c _imaging.c -o 
build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/_imaging.o

    <snip lots of compilation output>

     --------------------------------------------------------------------
     PIL 1.1.7 SETUP SUMMARY
     --------------------------------------------------------------------
     version       1.1.7
     platform      linux2 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:53:58)
                   [GCC 4.7.2]
     --------------------------------------------------------------------
     *** TKINTER support not available (Tcl/Tk 8.5 libraries needed)
     --- JPEG support available
     --- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support available
     --- FREETYPE2 support available
     *** LITTLECMS support not available
     --------------------------------------------------------------------
     To add a missing option, make sure you have the required
     library, and set the corresponding ROOT variable in the
     setup.py script.

     To check the build, run the selftest.py script.
     changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/pilfont.py from 664 to 775
     changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/pildriver.py from 664 to 775
     changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/pilfile.py from 664 to 775
     changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/pilconvert.py from 664 to 775
     changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/pilprint.py from 664 to 775

     changing mode of /home/waterbug/envs/pip-test/bin/pilfont.py to 775
     changing mode of /home/waterbug/envs/pip-test/bin/pildriver.py to 775
     changing mode of /home/waterbug/envs/pip-test/bin/pilfile.py to 775
     changing mode of /home/waterbug/envs/pip-test/bin/pilconvert.py to 775
     changing mode of /home/waterbug/envs/pip-test/bin/pilprint.py to 775
Successfully installed PIL
Cleaning up...
(pip-test)waterbug at boson:~/envs/pip-test$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:53:58)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import imaging
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named imaging
 >>> import PIL
 >>> PIL.__file__
'/home/waterbug/envs/pip-test/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/__init__.pyc'
 >>>

Cheers,
Steve