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SciPy at last!

Scipy is probably the software I have missed the most since I moved to OS X.  I have used it a lot for data analysis whenever the data wasn't in a simple table form idea for R.  It really is a wonderful module if you do any kind of scientific computing in Python.

I have tried several times to install it on my Mac(s) but with limited success.  On my Mac at the office I got most of it installed, but never managed to get matplotlib working.  On my iMac at home and on my MacBook I could get numpy up and working but not scipy proper.

Until now, that is.  I found this wonderful package: Scipy Superpack.  Well, it is really just a shell script, but it just installs scipy and a bunch of other modules, so now I finally have my old Python toolbox up and running again.

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2 Responses to “SciPy at last!”

  1. Steve Lianoglou Says:
    June 11th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    Also, if you (or your readers) haven't stumbled on it already, you can try to use the Enthought Python Distribution:

    http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php

    It's a commercial product, but free for use by degree-granting institutions (which I think is the category you'd fall into). It's got what you need, ie. numpy, scipy, ipython, and matplotlib *and* the kitchen sink.

    I've used both in the past, but EPD might be a good option for people trying to teach a class with (scientific) python, and don't want to deal with the hassle of helping their students get all the pieces working together.

    -steve

    Btw - what's the deal with the small addition/subtraction equations you have at the end of each post? Never quite got it.

  2. Thomas Mailund Says:
    June 12th, 2009 at 5:32 am

    Steve: Thanks for the link. For teaching I've so far avoided scipy (and rpy and pretty much any module that doesn't come out of the box with python) exactly because I don't want to have to deal with installation troubles on all kinds of systems if the students want to install it on their own machines. If EPD solves that problem for me, that would be a great help.

    For the equations at the bottom of the posts: I'm just counting the number of posts and number of days this year ... I have a New Years resolution have having more than one post per day on average and right now I'm ahead...

    So nothing serious, really, just a bit of bookkeeping that I'll stop doing at New Year, but will help me keep the resolution :)

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