Hi all,

I'm trying to get up and running with Spyder on OS X in order to work with 
the nltk package (http://www.nltk.org), but I'm having little luck.

I already had nltk installed (through pip, together with numpy and pyyaml, 
which is the method described on nltk.org) and am now trying to use that 
installation in Spyder. I set the path to the python interpreter in Spyder 
to /usr/bin/python. That allows me to import nltk, but when doing so, I get 
the following error:

RuntimeError: module compiled against API version 6 but this version of 
numpy is 4

I haven't had time to find out if that leads to trouble, but I fear it 
might do so somewhere down the road. I don't get that error when running 
python from the command line (i.e., Terminal.app), so I guess Spyder is 
still using its own installed version of numpy.

I also had to install matplotlib with easy_install, which resulted in a 
whole bunch of warnings, so that I'm not certain if I won't run into 
trouble at some later point. A first test plot seemed to work fine, though.

So what would be the best way to install an external package such as nltk 
on OS X so that I can work with it from within Spyder? Is there a 
recommended way?

Note: I'm a Python newbie, so I may well have misunderstood something or 
done something wrong without knowing it...

Thanks for any help or advice.

Joost



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