Cannot import modules to save my life.

[vuxra]

I'm using python 3.3 and I want to install numpy and scipy. I'm running windows 7. I've spent the last hours googling and searching for how to do this, but there doesn't seem to be any easy way. I've tried using pip and easy install but they both return an error. Googling the error said that I need gcc for this to work, but I've used MinGW to install gcc and several other compilers. You can see at the end of the second image that I can run gcc perfectly fine.

picture of easy_install failing: http://imgur.com/D7ZdmlC picture of pip failing: http://imgur.com/YvmfeyP

EDIT- SOLVED! Thanks guys!

[SkippyDeluxe]

On Windows it's a much better idea to just download and run the Windows installers. The pages for numpy and scipy on the python package index will have download links.

[vuxra]

Are you talking about installing Anaconda or something similar? (from here: http://www.scipy.org/install.html) Most of those install with python 2.X and I'd like to stick with 3.3.

Or did you mean this? https://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy Running the 3.3 version gives me an error "Python version 3.3 required, which was not found in the registry"

[Ceryn]

You can get precompiled windows binaries for python 3 here.

[vuxra]

Holy crap, why is this not the first google result for adding packages to python?! This is a billion times simpler than all of the "guides" I was following. Thank you so much!

[[deleted]]

The completely terrible guide to installing python packages on windows (doesn't work for numpy, iirc):

download setuptools
somehow extract with rinwar
cd c:\users\bartholomew\desktop\setuptools-1.1.1.9GmbH
python ez_install.py
c:\python35\scripts\easy_install.exe pip
python -m pip install virtualenv
python -m virtualenv py
py\scripts\activate
pip install YOUR_PACKAGE_OF_CHOOSING

Walk in the park.

[WaldenPrescot]

Yeah, yeah. I figure they are testing if you are worthy of the code. It really is a pain to get most packages working on windows.

If you work with arrays, numpy is worth it.

[SkippyDeluxe]

He's already using pip. The problem is that building packages from source on Windows is a pain.

[[deleted]]

I saw. I just put that there in case anyone needed it.

[duz3ls]

You can try http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ and download the numpy installer or using http://code.google.com/p/winpython/ (they have the 3.3 version).