Linux and Numeric extensions...

[Carl Johan Rehn]

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Carl Johan Rehn wrote:
> 
>> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Carl Johan Rehn wrote:
>> >
>> >> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Carl Johan Rehn wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> I am running Linux Suse 7.2 and have recently installed the Numeric
>> >> >> extensions to Python, but when I import the Numeric library the
>> >> >> Python interpreter cannot find the library. I suppose I have to add
>> >> >> the path to the site-packages/Numeric library somewhere, but I
>> >> >> don't know where.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Can anybody help me?
>> >> >
>> >> > Once you use distutils to compile and install the Numeric
>> >> > extensions, you should just be able to import the modules in the
>> >> > package, e.g., Numeric.Numeric. What's happening in your case?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I think I've used the rpm distribution of Numeric and when I do
>> >> "import Numeric" I just get "ImportError: No module named Numeric".
>> >
>> > The NumPy 20.1 RPM ( the latest version, 20.2, doesn't yet have RPMs)
>> > is built for Python 2.1(.1). What version of Python are you using?
>> >
>>
>> Oh, I see that I'm running Python 2.0! Would this mean that I have to
>> build NumPy from the source files?
> 
> Actually, the Python 2.0 RPM that comes with SuSE 7.2 is missing one or
> more modules (specifically bsddb, but there may be others), so you should
> probably upgrade to 2.1.1, and tossing in 2.2a3 for compatibility testing
> might be helpful.
> 
> And while you're in upgrade mode, it probably can't hurt to grab the
> tarball for NumPy 20.2 and use that instead of 20.1.
> 

Thanks Ignacio, I will definitely do that!

/Carl