Re: [Distutils] Python package inquiry

2016-08-09 Thread Ian Cordasco
Can you tell us which instructions you followed and what the exact output of that command is? Also, what version of Python are you using (python -V)? On Aug 9, 2016 6:40 PM, "Meradj Aghdam" wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > Hi, > > I am new to Python and I am struggling to install Python pack

Re: [Distutils] Python package inquiry

2016-08-09 Thread Anna Ravenscroft
Hi Meradj, Are you in the Python interpreter when you type that? If so, that's your problem. You need to be at your normal command prompt. Open a new shell or terminal and type that command first. If you've already started Python and are in the interpreter, that would indeed, give you a syntax er

Re: [Distutils] msvc9compiler.py - vcvarsall.bat is living one folder higher - VS90COMNTOOLS

2016-08-09 Thread Steve Dower
On 09Aug2016 1519, Dr. Andreas Krueger wrote: I could not find a github repo, otherwise I would have filed this as an "issue" there. The subfolder "VC" is wrong in msvc9compiler.py - at least on my system (win7-64bit, py2.7.12, anaconda 2.4.1, conda 4.1.11) So in your "msvc9compiler.py" ins

[Distutils] Python package inquiry

2016-08-09 Thread Meradj Aghdam
To whom it may concern, Hi, I am new to Python and I am struggling to install Python packages. I have followed the instructions however it does not seem to be working. I am trying to install the package through the Python(Command Line), the package is economics, and when I put python -m pip inst

[Distutils] msvc9compiler.py - vcvarsall.bat is living one folder higher - VS90COMNTOOLS

2016-08-09 Thread Dr. Andreas Krueger
I could not find a github repo, otherwise I would have filed this as an "issue" there. The subfolder "VC" is wrong in msvc9compiler.py - at least on my system (win7-64bit, py2.7.12, anaconda 2.4.1, conda 4.1.11) So in your "msvc9compiler.py" instead of productdir = os.path.joi

Re: [Distutils] setuptools 25.1.6 broke numpy.distutils on Windows

2016-08-09 Thread Steve Dower
On 09Aug2016 0213, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Just a heads-up that latest setuptools is incompatible with numpy.distutils on Windows: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/728 For those who don't want to dig into the issues and pull requests, it seems that multiple libraries were patching diffe

[Distutils] setuptools 25.1.6 broke numpy.distutils on Windows

2016-08-09 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Hello, Just a heads-up that latest setuptools is incompatible with numpy.distutils on Windows: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/728 The whole scientific community will suffer until this issue is solved one way or the other (either on the setuptools side, or on the Numpy side, or both).