[SciPy-User] Warnings --- why do they occur and how can I stop them?

[Virgil Stokes]

On 26-Oct-2012 22:15, David Warde-Farley wrote:
> It sounds as if you've installed a binary-incompatible version of
> SciPy for the version of NumPy that you have.
>
> SciPy's version requirements are pretty loose but since SciPy if
> you're installing binaries, you need to be sure that the SciPy binary
> you get was compiled against the same version of NumPy that you get
> (or at least one with the same ABI version, to get technical).
>
> Deleting whatever you currently have and downloading one of the
> "superpack" installers from here
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/0.11.0/ should fix
> you up.
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Virgil Stokes <vs at it.uu.se> wrote:
>> I have the following installed:
>>
>>     NumPy 1.6.1
>>     SciPy 0.11.0
>>
>> on a Windows Vista (32-bit) platform with Python 2.7
>>
>> I get the following warnings:
>>
>> D:\python27\lib\site-packages\scipy\io\matlab\mio4.py:15: RuntimeWarning:
>> numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility
>>         from mio_utils import squeeze_element, chars_to_strings
>> D:\python27\lib\site-packages\scipy\io\matlab\mio4.py:15: RuntimeWarning:
>> numpy.ufunc size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility
>>         from mio_utils import squeeze_element, chars_to_strings
>> D:\python27\lib\site-packages\scipy\io\matlab\mio5.py:96: RuntimeWarning:
>> numpy.dtype size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility
>>         from mio5_utils import VarReader5
>> D:\python27\lib\site-packages\scipy\io\matlab\mio5.py:96: RuntimeWarning:
>> numpy.ufunc size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility
>>         from mio5_utils import VarReader5
>>
>>    When the following statement is executed
>>
>> from scipy import io
>>
>> Why does this occur and what can be done to fix this problem?
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Thanks for you help,

I have now fixed the problem (see my response that was posted earlier).

--V