Pre-newbie stuck on the on-deck circle

[Randall Smith]

Mark,

Usually there is an installation file called setup.py.  You run the 
following commands to install the module:

    python setup.py config
    python setup.py install

I'm fairly new also, but I've done this a few times.

Randall

Mark Fenbers wrote:
> I'm investigating Python for determining its possibilities regarding a project
> I've inherited to plot line charts... essentially replicating this graphic:
> http://ahps.erh.noaa.gov/iln/ahps/RiverDat/gifs/ccno1.png.  I've learned enough
> so far to know that scipy.gplt and scipy.plt won't do enough of what I want.
> Perhap Gist will.  Is Gist the same as scipy.xplt?
> 
> I've done just about zero so far in Python, aside from type in a couple short
> examples.  There seems to be a mysterious lack of documentation on scipy.xplt
> and only slightly more on Gist, but the latest documentation on Gist I could
> find was from 5 years ago.  I started playing with some Gist examples and
> couldn't get past the first line ... not surprising with the amount of
> information I have found.  At the Python prompt, I typed
> 
> 
>>>> from gist import *
> 
> Traceback ...
> ...
> ImportError: No module named gist
> 
> 
> It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that I haven't downloaded or
> installed gist, but I tried it just in case the computer I inherited happened to
> already have it -- apparently not!
> 
> So where do I get Gist, and how do I install it once I get it?  I got scipy and
> thought I installed it, but I get the same error when I try: from scipy import *
> 
> How do I install scipy (and Gist [or xplt] once I get it) since there is no
> "./configure ; make ; make install" dance to do?
> 
> Mark