On Wednesday 17 July 2013 15:17:47 Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Chris Calloway <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Learn Numpy/SciPy/Matplotlib applied to your domain in three days? I
> > don't think so. Maybe get an overview in three days. Heck, it can take
> > someone with gobs of experience three days just to optimize your Fortran
> > compiler or graphics rendering engine for good performance with Python's
> > scientific stack.
>
> or far more trivial things, like getting
> numpy/scipy/matplotlib/hdf/netcdf/mayvi? all installed an working -- a
> good reason why people buy EPD or Anacoda.
>
I have had such troubles, too, although less so of
late.
Question: What is the reason for these installation
problems? Most languages/libs these days install
w/o any problems. Why are the Python scientific libs
(still?) so challenging in this regard.
Best,
Ph.
