On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Chandramouli<naruvim...@gmail.com> wrote: > I built and installed Numpy on my campus account, the install couldn't > be done on the python install location. So I did it on my local > storage location but I am clueless about how to use it I was expecting > to see a numpy.py in the install dir > so I could I suppose just give > import <path to install loc>numpy > > and expect it to work like normal but I am not sure how this works
python expects to find modules (such as numpy) into a list of directories, some of which are hardcoded at installation time for python. You can prepend a directory (or a set of directories) using the PYTHONPATH environment variable. For example, installing numpy insto $HOME/local: python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME/local numpy will be installed in $HOME/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages (for python 2.5), and you should set your PYTHONPATH to $HOME/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages for python to find it: PYTHONPATH=$HOME/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH python -c "import numpy" David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
