On 02/10/2013 10:35 AM, Rex Macey wrote: > I'm new to Python with a new windows 8 machine (64-bit OS). Learning > programming mainly for fun. Naturally I downloaded Python 3.3 (who > doesn't want the latest and greatest). What I want involves > functions related to the normal distribution. Based on my google > research, it appears that SCIPY is a good way to go. That requires > NUMPY. I don't seem to find an install that works for my > environment which leads to the questions on this post: Is there an > install for my environment and if so, where do I get it? If not, is > there another package I should use? Or do I need to bite the bullet > and install an earlier version of Python. Suggestions and comments > appreciated. Thanks.
A casual google search seems to indicate that for now, SciPy and NumPy are for Python 2.x (2.7 is the latest). I could be wrong though and often am. I know a number of popular and useful packages are not yet available on Python 3. If you need to do a lot math stuff, there's a complete python system that bundles a lot of these tools together into a nice package. It's called Sage. http://www.sagemath.org/ There are several non-python packages out there that are really handy as well: - R - if you need to do statistics. http://www.r-project.org/ - Octave - a matlab-compatible language. http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ - SciLab - a math package that has a nice gui. http://www.scilab.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list