[Numpy-discussion] distutils problem with NumPy-1.4 & Py-2.7a3 (Snow Leopard)

[Robert Kern]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 13:18, Tom Loredo <loredo at astro.cornell.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi-
>
> I've been testing Python-2.7a3 on Mac OS 10.6.2.  NumPy-1.4.0 will
> not install; it appears something has changed within distutils that
> breaks it:
>  File "/Volumes/System/Users/loredo/Downloads/numpy-1.4.0-OSX/numpy/distutils/ccompiler.py", line 17, in <module>
>    _old_init_posix = distutils.sysconfig._init_posix
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '_init_posix'

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Robert Kern

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