Installing Numpy and Scipy

On Mac, the default Python that comes with Mac, will not work. So, we need to download another version of Python and install it.

At the time of writing this, 2.7.3 can be downloaded from, http://www.python.org/download/

Get numpy and scipy as,

git clone git://github.com/numpy/numpy.git numpy

git clone git://github.com/scipy/scipy.git scipy

http://www.scipy.org/Download

The below link is a good place to see what to do,

Nose needs to be installed to test scipy and numpy installation,

The built in unit tests should pass for both numpy and scipy.