scipy installation problems

[Fernando Perez]

Mark Fenbers wrote:

> I installed Numeric... no problems; works fine.
> I installed Imaging-1.1.4... no problems; works fine
> I installed scipy... installed fine (tar xvf was all there was to it), but I
> get this error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: No module named scipy
> 
> I haven't been able to figure out through this after working on it for two
> days.  Anyone know what I am doing wrong?  I am new to Python and attempting
> to try out some
> examples to see if it might meet my needs for my next project...

Let me recommend that you use the CVS sources instead of any packaged tarballs. 
Scipy is still evolving very fast, and its core team simply is focused at this
time on code rather than distribution.  While this will probably change soon,
at this point I think you'll be much better off with a CVS tree.  It installs
very cleanly (at least as of a few weeks ago, when I last updated) and passes
all tests.

Cheers,

f.