Scot Denhalter wrote: > I am a beginning programmer who is reading Natural Language Processing > with Python. The book provides tutorials for working with the NLTK, > which needs numpy to run certain calculations. I have downloaded and > installed Python 2.6. I have downloaded numpy 1.3.0, but I cannot > figure out how to install it. I have read the Install.txt that is > included, but I don't understand exactly what I need to do. The > instructions are clear enough for those familiar with the programming > world, but I am obviously not the document's target reader. > > I am working with a MacBook Pro and do not have either fortran compiler > installed. Can someone give me some guidance?
You don't need a fortran compiler for numpy, even if you are building from source; and you probably don't need to build from source. Did you try the suggested binary packages for the Mac as listed on the nltk site? http://www.nltk.org/download Eric _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
