On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Pradeep Jha <jh...@utias.utoronto.ca> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a few questions: > > 1) > I downloaded numpy1.3.0 and installed it in a directory using the command > python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME/src/numpy > and I see that numpy files have been generated in that directory. > > Now when I tried to install matplotlib, it complained that my numpy version > is 1.0.3
That's because by default, python does not look into $HOME/src/numpy/.... You have several ways of controlling that, but the easy one is PYTHONPATH. This environment variable should contain your site-package, which is the $prefix/lib/python2.4/site-packages here where $prefix is what you gave to --prefix. PYTHONPATH is only on of the way to modify sys.path, which is what is used by python in the end: # python will only look for packages which are sys.path python -c "import sys; print sys.path" You can check the path of the package after import: python -c "import numpy; print numpy.__file__" David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
