[Tutor] help with Numpy

Oscar Benjamin oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 18:35:09 EDT 2016


On 21 Sep 2016 22:29, "Alan Gauld via Tutor" <tutor at python.org> wrote:
>
> On 21/09/16 15:53, Paul Dentinger wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Sorry for such a basic question, but I am trying to get Numpy to work.
I
> > have python 3.5 and working in IDLE.  I need Numpy and Scipy and may
need
> > matplotlib.
>
> To be honest while you can install all the bits separately
> I normally recommend just getting a distro that already includes
> everything SciPy related.

I would have given the same advice a year or so ago. It's worth noting
though that the situation with pip, wheel etc has improved significantly
recently. It's now straightforward to pip install Numpy, scipy, matplotlib
and many others on Windows, OSX and Linux. Try it!

-- 
Oscar


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