[SciPy-user] problem with scipy.stats.distributions ?

[Travis Oliphant]

PGM wrote:
> Hello,
> I recently update to numpy 1.0b5 and scipy 0.5.1, and I'm running into this 
> message:
> #....................................................................
>   
>>>> scipy.stats.distributions.norm.ppf(0.95)
>>>>         
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/stats/distributions.py in ppf(self, 
> q, *args, **kwds)
>     551         place(output,cond2,self.b*scale + loc)
>     552         goodargs = argsreduce(cond, *((q,)+args+(scale,loc)))
> --> 553         scale, loc, goodargs = goodargs[-2], goodargs[-1], 
> goodargs[:-2]
>     554         place(output,cond,self._ppf(*goodargs)*scale + loc)
>     555         return output
>
> /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/numpy/lib/function_base.py in insert(arr, 
> obj, values, axis)
>    1165         if (obj < 0): obj += N
>    1166         if (obj < 0 or obj >=N):
> -> 1167             raise ValueError, "index (%d) out of range (0<=index<=%d) 
> "\
>    1168                   "in dimension %d" % (obj, N, axis)
>    1169         newshape[axis] += 1;
>
>   

It looks like you have an old .pyc file that is being picked up and 
confusing the interpreter.  Try clearing out the site-packages/scipy and 
site-packages/numpy directories and installing again.

-Travis