[SciPy-User] [pystatsmodels] Re: Re: ANN: pandas 0.9.0 released

[Wes McKinney]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wes McKinney wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Andreas Hilboll
>> <lists at hilboll.de> wrote:
>>>> On fedora 17:
>>>>
>>>> pip install --up --user pandas
>>>> ...
>>>> Installing collected packages: python-dateutil, pytz, six
>>>>   Found existing installation: python-dateutil 1.5
>>>>     Uninstalling python-dateutil:
>>>> Exception:
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> So pip wants to remove the system python-dateutil 1.5.
>>>>
>>>> What's the solution here?  Can pandas 0.9 just use the installed dateutil
>>>> 1.5?
>>>
>>> IIRC, dateutil >= 2.0 is for Python3, while Python 2.x requires dateutil 1.5.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Andreas.
>>>
>>
>> dateutil 2.1 supports >= 2.6 and 3.x using six. Here are the arguments
>> being passed to pip:
>>
>>         setuptools_kwargs = {
>>             'install_requires': ['python-dateutil',
>>                                  'pytz',
>>                                  'numpy >= 1.6'],
>>             'zip_safe' : False,
>>         }
>>
>> Maybe passing --no-deps to pip is the way to go. Packaging misery
>>
>> - Wes
>
> So to confirm, pandas will work OK with dateutil 1.5?
>

Yes