how to install scipy for python?

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I have Python 2.7, and I have distutils installed.

I downloaded the latest version of Scipy for win 32.

For the life of me, I do not understand how to install it.

From the directions on the site, it states:

If you already have Python installed, the easiest way to install Numpy and Scipy is to download and install the binary distribution from Download.

I have followed the above directions and downloaded this.

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I cannot figure what to do now!

How do I finish getting scipy installed?

binaries end with .exe ... in windows at least ... – Joran Beasley Oct 04 '12 at 20:41 — Joran Beasley, Oct 04 '12 at 20:41
@JoranBeasley thank you. i did not find an EXE – Alex Gordon Oct 04 '12 at 20:42 — Alex Gordon, Oct 04 '12 at 20:42
thats because you didnt download it ... see my answer :) – Joran Beasley Oct 04 '12 at 20:43 — Joran Beasley, Oct 04 '12 at 20:43

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 04 '12 at 20:43

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It looks like you've downloaded the source distribution, which you would normally install by doing:

python setup.py install

However, without the proper C compiler environment and other libraries, it will probably fail. I'm guessing you really wanted to download the Windows binaries .

You have to drill a little further down in the sourceforge site to find it.

answered Oct 04 '12 at 20:43

Collin

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I dont think this will work for him unless he has the vsrallbat.dll or whatever it is from microsoft... – Joran Beasley Oct 04 '12 at 20:46
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ This is a helpful site with a number of binaries for scientific python computing in one place. – kreativitea Oct 04 '12 at 21:36

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '12 at 20:42

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try downloading the windows binary ...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/0.11.0/scipy-0.11.0-win32-superpack-python2.7.exe/download

answered Oct 04 '12 at 20:42

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 04 '12 at 20:46

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You'll be well off installing setuptools. Makes installing almost anything python-related a breeze!

e.g.

easy_install scipy

There's another one called pip.

easy_install pip

pip install scipy

answered Oct 04 '12 at 20:46

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i think i have that already! how would i use it to install scipy? – Alex Gordon Oct 04 '12 at 20:46
I dont think this will work for him unless he has the vsrallbat.dll or whatever it is from microsoft... (in this case...) but in general yes setuptools is a win – Joran Beasley Oct 04 '12 at 20:47
awesome!!!! can you tell me how did you know it was scipy and not scipy1.01 or something like that? – Alex Gordon Oct 04 '12 at 20:50
To be honest I just know it from having used easy_install and pip a lot and they don't include version numbers - just easy to remember names. In case you *do* need to use a version number, it's easy as `easy install scipy==0.9` (pseudo version number) – Anuj Gupta Oct 04 '12 at 20:51
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@JoranBeasley Ah, the dreaded vcvarsall.bat error. Yeah, sometimes it messes you up. But easy_install works a lot better than pip on Windows for some reason – Anuj Gupta Oct 04 '12 at 20:54
Try `easy_install scikit-learn`. Before you ask - Found it by Googling "sklearn pypi". [PyPI](http://pypi.python.org/pypihttp://pypi.python.org/pypi) is the source of this awesomeness. – Anuj Gupta Oct 04 '12 at 20:56

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 09 '15 at 14:38

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just open windows command prompt and go to the directory you have installed Python. e.g c:\python34>

Once there, just type python -m pip install scipy and press enter

edited Jan 09 '15 at 14:38

answered Jan 09 '15 at 13:18

jerry

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