Re: [Numpy-discussion] Beginner Needing Help with Installation

2009-11-19 Thread Pierre GM
On Nov 19, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Scot Denhalter wrote: > > I am not building anything at the moment. I am simply trying to learn > Python as it pertains to Natural Language Processing. And soon you'll get addicted and start installing stuffs ;) > Yes, my MacBook Pro came with Python 2.5. Pierre

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Beginner Needing Help with Installation

2009-11-19 Thread David Warde-Farley
On 19-Nov-09, at 7:00 PM, Scot Denhalter wrote: > Yes, my MacBook Pro came with Python 2.5. Pierre recommends iPython, > but the book I am using to learn Python (Natural Language Processing > with Python) says that the NLTK won't work with anything above version > 2.6. I discovered that limitat

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Beginner Needing Help with Installation

2009-11-19 Thread Scot Denhalter
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:32 PM, David Warde-Farley wrote: > On 19-Nov-09, at 5:41 PM, Scot Denhalter wrote: > >> Yes, I am using the Snow Leopard OSX.  Should I be coding through >> the Xcode >> interface and not Python's IDLE shell? > > Using the Xcode IDE is not necessary and probably far from

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Beginner Needing Help with Installation

2009-11-19 Thread David Warde-Farley
On 19-Nov-09, at 5:41 PM, Scot Denhalter wrote: > Yes, I am using the Snow Leopard OSX. Should I be coding through > the Xcode > interface and not Python's IDLE shell? Using the Xcode IDE is not necessary and probably far from optimal for what you're doing; however Xcode installs all of the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Beginner Needing Help with Installation

2009-11-19 Thread Pierre GM
On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Scot Denhalter wrote: > Pierre, > > Yes, I am using the Snow Leopard OSX. Should I be coding through the Xcode > interface and not Python's IDLE shell? Oh no, that's not what I meant when I asked you if you had installed Xcode. It's just that you need Xcode for

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Beginner Needing Help with Installation

2009-11-19 Thread David Warde-Farley
On 19-Nov-09, at 5:36 PM, Scot Denhalter wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Eric Firing > wrote: >> >> You don't need a fortran compiler for numpy, even if you are building >> from source; and you probably don't need to build from source. Did >> you >> try the suggested binary package

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Beginner Needing Help with Installation

2009-11-19 Thread Scot Denhalter
Pierre, Yes, I am using the Snow Leopard OSX. Should I be coding through the Xcode interface and not Python's IDLE shell? You distinguish between system wide installation and user installation. You may have seen from my post to Eric, that I found and installed .dmg downloads for numpy and matpl

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Beginner Needing Help with Installation

2009-11-19 Thread Scot Denhalter
Eric, Yes, I downloaded the files recommended on that webpage. The tar.gz files unpack, but they do not install, and I am too much of a newbie to figure out how to install the files in the unpacked folder. No matter where I placed the numpy folder, I couldn't get Python 2.6 to find and install n

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Beginner Needing Help with Installation

2009-11-19 Thread Pierre GM
On Nov 19, 2009, at 4:34 PM, Scot Denhalter wrote: > I am a beginning programmer who is reading Natural Language Processing with > Python. The book provides tutorials for working with the NLTK, which needs > numpy to run certain calculations. I have downloaded and installed Python > 2.6. I h

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Beginner Needing Help with Installation

2009-11-19 Thread Eric Firing
Scot Denhalter wrote: > I am a beginning programmer who is reading Natural Language Processing > with Python. The book provides tutorials for working with the NLTK, > which needs numpy to run certain calculations. I have downloaded and > installed Python 2.6. I have downloaded numpy 1.3.0, but

[Numpy-discussion] Beginner Needing Help with Installation

2009-11-19 Thread Scot Denhalter
I am a beginning programmer who is reading Natural Language Processing with Python. The book provides tutorials for working with the NLTK, which needs numpy to run certain calculations. I have downloaded and installed Python 2.6. I have downloaded numpy 1.3.0, but I cannot figure out how to insta