scipy error invalid path

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Readers,

Used the community edition service of activepython web site to install
python27. Within the 'bin' directory, received the following error:

$ ./easy_install-2.7 scipy
Searching for scipy
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/scipy/
Best match: scipy 0.13.2
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/scipy/scipy-0.13.2.zip#md5=9befa30e546fba762a0c1695a509f731
Processing scipy-0.13.2.zip
Writing /tmp/easy_install-Ef9P39/scipy-0.13.2/setup.cfg
Running scipy-0.13.2/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
/tmp/easy_install-Ef9P39/scipy-0.13.2/egg-dist-tmp-6SO8yB
/path/to/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/distutils/system_info.py:564:
UserWarning: Specified path /home/apy/atlas/lib is invalid.
  warnings.warn('Specified path %s is invalid.' % d)

There is no directory in the host computer with this home directory
name. How to solve please?