[SciPy-User] curve_fit missing from scipy.optimize

[Charles R Harris]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Benedikt Riedel <briedel at wisc.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 01:10, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>>
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>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Benedikt Riedel <briedel at wisc.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> It is Ubuntu 10.04 on an AMD-64 from the alternative install CD. I first
>>> installed
>>>
>>>
>> Same here except AMD Phenom.
>>
>>> build-essential gfortran libatlas-sse2-dev
>>>
>>>
>> Special SSE2 packages are a 32 bit thing, are you running the 32 bit
>> version of Ubuntu?
>>
>
>
> Running a 64-bit version
>
>>  python-all-dev ipython
>>> subversion
>>>
>>> via apt-get. Then I installed nose, numpy and finally scipy using the
>>> package from the website
>>>
>>>
>> Usually I apt-get numpy and scipy for the dependencies, then install from
>> svn. If you do install from source in addition to the ubuntu packages you
>> might want to modify the path so the proper package is used. I use
>>
>> $charris at ubuntu ~$ cat ~/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/install.pth
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
>>
>> Although I suspect /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages would work as
>> well.
>>
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>
> I tried the apt-get path but it tells me that numpy and scipy is installed
> therefore I cant reinstall it.
>
> I dont seem to have /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages but instead only
> have a /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages.
>
> I checked out the minpack.py in the dist-packages folder
> (/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages) and found that it did have a
> reference to curve_fit, but when I checked /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
> and the minpack.py did not have a reference to curve_fit.
>
>
So are things working for you now? You need to make
~/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/install.pth yourself as it isn't there
out of the box.

<snip>

Chuck
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