[Tutor] Idle - ImportError: No module named numpy

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 11 March 2015 at 19:43, Markos <markos at c2o.pro.br> wrote:
>
> On 10-03-2015 16:48, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
>>
>> Looks like a bug in pip or in the get-pip script. What version of
>> python3 are you using?
>
> But the command to install numpy gave an error message:
>
> # python3 -m pip install numpy
>
> Collecting numpy
>   Exception:
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File
> "/usr/local/lib/python3.1/dist-packages/pip-6.0.8-py3.1.egg/pip/basecommand.py",

Ah okay. You're using Python 3.1. Python 3.1 is not supported by pip,
setuptools or numpy. That may explain the error messages that you get
with pip. Also it explains why there is no python3-numpy package in
your repositories. Essentially most major Python packages are aimed at
Python 2.6/2.7 and Python 3.2 upwards but not Python 3.0 or 3.1. Does
squeeze have a newer version of Python 3 (e.g. 3.2)?

It may be possible to get numpy to work with python 3.1 but I would
recommend either:
1) Stick to Python 2.
2) Upgrade to wheezy - I haven't checked but I assume that it has a
newer version of Python 3.
3) Install Python 3.4 manually (by compiling it yourself).

If you do want to try and install numpy for python 3.1 then you would
download the .tar.gz from here:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy
Then extract it, cd in, and run "python3 setup.py install".

The people who make numpy don't support Python 3.1 though which means
that they don't try to guarantee that it will work so you may
encounter more problems.


Oscar