All python bugs solved by installing Anaconda2. The drug-hunting software is running in Debian9 (stretch) on Anaconda2 python.
francesco pietra ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Francesco Pietra <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 3:00 AM Subject: Probmes in running scipy with amd64 To: amd64 Debian <[email protected]> Since a few days I am trying to get scipy support to a drug-hunting code. I first used a clean jessie (scipy 14), installing > apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy > > whereby, on running the drug hunting code, I got the scipy error: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scipy/optimize/optimize.py", line 17 > from *future* import division, print_function, absolute_import > SyntaxError: future feature print_function is not defined > Then I installed other packages (huge installation), as indicated on the web for getting a working scipy: > apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib ipython > ipython-notebook python-pandas python-sympy python-nose > > > (for stretch ipython-notebook was not available, while it was for jessie) > > dropping into the same error as above. I assumed that the available python lacked that function. Therefore, I went to stretch (scipy 18), now getting the error: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scipy/optimize/optimize.py", line 769 > with warnings.catch_warnings(): > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > On these events, I was advised to abandon python as available in debian and installing anaconda python. Such advice seems to imply (although it was not said) that python, or pieces of python, in debian are buggy. Before following that advice (anaconda python, from its web presentation, seems more a shortcut for those not having root privilege, which is not my case), I am asking about experience in using scipy with debian, and whether there is any trick, or configuration, to be followed in its installation. Thanks a lot for sharing experience francesco pietra
