Python Installation Error: NumPy Package

I am trying to follow this tutorial and getting an error when I do the following: (DataVizProject) $ pip install -r requirements.txt It gives me a big error log, the last few line

Solution 1:

@Hasnain, when you are using python in windows, eventually you will see this error for some packages.

You have three options when it happen (in order of relevance):

1 - Try to download a MSI file. It will install the library without any problems. To numpy specifically you can download here (http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#numpy)

2 - You can download the whole file and try a python setup.py install and modify the packacge if it raise some errors.

3 - You can compile your own library for your operational system.

Many MSI files you can find here (http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/)

Solution 2:

The method recommended in that tutorial works well for Unix systems. If you are on Windows you will go through a lot of trouble trying to build numpy from sources with pip. I will save you some time, follow the official recomendation and try some binary install of the recommended ones in the official Scipy website. I personally recommend you the Anaconda or the Enthought distribution.

Solution 3:

Usually when installing packages on windows, by default python searches for Visual Studio 2008 . You can either install it or use MinGW Compiler.

If you decide to use MinGW you should edit your distutils.cfg file in Python27\Lib\distutils directory :

[build]
compiler = mingw32

[build_ext]
compiler = mingw32