Hi, On 18 January 2012 18:07, Downey, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm currently running Python version 2.7 through IDLE on a Windows machine. > I'm trying to use numpy and scipy. I downloaded both modules from the scipy > website and unzipped the files into: > C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages > Generally, manually installing modules/packages into site-packages should be the last option you choose for installing 3rd party modules/packages into your Python environment. For Windows machines, you should, in order of preference (IMHO) choose: 1.) A customer installer package (.exe. file or .msi file) built for your specific bit version of Windows (ie 32 or 64 bit) and for your specific version of Python (e.g. 2.7, 3.2 etc.) 2.) Install via Python's generic package management support e.g. via one of: distribute pip setuptools These tools make it trivial to install most non-platform-specific modules from a central repository using a single command, removing the need to know where to get them or how to install them. 3.) Direct installation via an included "setup.py" script: Most Python packages include an installation script intended to install the package into your Python environment correctly, usually via the command: python setup.py install 4.) Manually copying/installing into your Python environment. In your case, there are Windows .exe based installers available for Windows 32 bit for Python 2.7 for both SciPy and NumPy so I'd suggest you remove your manual attempts and re-install using one of the pre-built installers. HTH, Walter
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