On Aug 8, 9:54 pm, "W. eWatson" <wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote: > On 8/8/2010 5:51 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:15:45 -0700, W. eWatson wrote: > > >> To suggest Google as above, makes no sense to me. This is the place to > >> ask, as another poster stated. > > > He may have stated it, but the evidence suggests he's wrong. You're > > asking a question about the details of the installers used specifically > > by scipy andmatplotlib. Most people here have no idea about that, hence > > the lack of useful answers. The best likelihood of finding a solution is > > to go to a specialist forum, not a generic one. > > > In any case, suggesting Google is *always* relevant. You gave us no > > reason at all to think that you had made any effort to solve the problem > > yourself before asking for us to volunteer our time. That's rude. Did you > > google for "uninstall scipy" before asking for help? Did you make any > > effort to read the Scipy manual first? Did you make any effort *at all*? > > If you had -- and for all we know, you might have spent days trying to > > solve this, or 3 seconds, or anything in between -- you didn't say so. > > > Suggesting that you do some googling is absolutely relevant. > > > Perhaps it's about time that we point you at this: > > >http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > Idon'tagree with everything the author says, but the basic position is > > about right. > > For the last few hours, I've been on the scipy and numpy mail list, per > a suggestion. No one seems to really understand uninstall there.
Well. Your question has been answered on Numpy-discussion in February and again today on SciPy-users. > I think > Ben Caplan may have it right. You and I need go no further with this. We > disagree--again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
