On 18 September 2013 03:48, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:06:44 -0400, Susan Lubbers wrote: > >> Our group is a python 2.7 which is installed in a shared area. We have >> scipy 11 installed in site-packages. How would I install scipy 12 so >> that I used the shared install of python but scipy 12 instead of 11? > > If you are using Python 2.6 or better, you should be able to include the > option "--user" when installing Scipy using either pip or distutils. I > haven't tried these, but: > > # using pip: > pip install --install-option="--user" scipy
Is there a difference between --install-option="--user" and just passing --user directly? > If that fails, follow the advice given here to install from svn: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2213551/installing-scipy-with-pip > > > pip install --install-option="--user" git+http://github.com/scipy/scipy/ > > > Otherwise, if you are installing from source using distutils, add the > --user option directly: > > python setup.py install --user scipy To be clear any of the above options are for building scipy from source which means you need a C compiler, a Fortran compiler and to separately build/install BLAS/LAPACK: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7496547/python-scipy-needs-blas The best instructions for meeting these requirements depend on your OS (are you using Windows?). For Python 2.7 I think that easy_install will be able to install from the sourceforge binaries, e.g easy_install --user scipy but I may be wrong. You'll need to ensure that you don't have a mismatch between numpy/scipy versions and I don't know if easy_install will handle that for you. This may mean separately installing numpy as well. Oscar -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
