[SciPy-user] Installation problems on Windows

[Pearu Peterson]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Leighton Pritchard wrote:

> My earlier problem still persists with the Win32 binary release from today 
> (Fri 17/1/03):
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>  >>> scipy.test()
> [...]
> No test suite found for scipy.stats.rw creating test suite for 
> scipy.stats.stats
> ...........
> 
> which brings up a dialog box: "The instruction at 0x77fcce38 referenced 
> memory at 0x00000004. The memory could not be written" - clicking OK 
> obviously closes the Python interpreter.
> 
> The reported addresses and the stage at which the scipy.test() call fails 
> are not always consistent. I've had the tests crash out at the
> 
> ...........F...
> 
> stage, too.
> 
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> 
> any help gratefully received...

I don't have Windows machine to test this but you could
try to locate which test fails by running scipy module tests
one by one:
>>> import scipy
>>> scipy.linalg.test()
>>> scipy.fftpack.test()
>>> scipy.stats.test()
etc.
After you find which particular module (it looks like stats module) is
causing the above problem, start uncommending tests cases from
  scipy/<modulename>/tests/test_<testname>.py
files (see test_suite function) until you find which particular test is
causing the problem. Then we can look more closely what could be the cause
of these errors..

Pearu