[SciPy-User] How do I use ols.py?

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 22:27, Dave <dave.j.thornton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found OLS.py in the Cookbook (http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/OLS),
> and would like to use it.  But I don't know how.
>
> Numpy and scipy came with full installers.  OLS.py is just a .py
> file.  I'm totally at a loss.
>
> I tried putting OLS.py in various Python directories and then doing an
> "import ols" from the commandline, but Python yelled at me.
>
> I'm not a programmer - can anyone help me out?  Where do I put OLS.py
> such that I can import it?  Or, what tools do I use to "install" it
> the way I'm used to installing a python module?  I'm running a 64-bit
> Windows Vista machine, and Python 2.7.

You want to put it into c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\  (assuming that
you installed Python into the default location of c:\Python27\). Then
use "import OLS" with the same capitalization as the filename.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco