which scipy binary for Win32

[David Cournapeau]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Adam <nospam at example.com> wrote:
> Am looking at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/0.8.0/
> and I wonder which is the binary to install on WinXP ?
> As pointed to by this page, http://www.scipy.org/Download
>
> All I can see on that sourceforge page are the huge
> python2.6 and python2.7 Powerpacks, at 43megs or so
> each. The scipy-0.8.0.zip seems to require compilation.

What make you think those are not the right ones ? The size is caused
by the presence of three architectures (sse2, sse3 and no sse support)
inside the binary installer.

> Does the scipy 2.7 Powerpack include numpy anyway ?

No, you need to install numpy first.

cheers,

David