[Visualpython-users] Help with SciPy

[Rodney D. <rod...@gm...>]

Colleagues,

I'm curious if anyone is using the SciPy package, and if so, how did
you get it set up?  I'm trying to learn how to wrap C and/or Fortran
(with f2py, for example) routines in my Python code to achieve a
performance boost, but I can't even get the libraries installed
correctly.  The documentation at SciPy.org looks like it's written for
experts.  I can't understand it.  I don't think I'm stupid, but maybe
I am.  I've completely removed my Python installation twice to start
from scratch, but in the end I get strange errors I can't interpret.

It seems everyone is using this package, so it can't be that hard to instal=
l.

Can anyone give me some help?  If anyone would be willing to contact
me off-list and walk me through the process of getting f2py, weave,
etc. ready to go, I would really appreciate it.

I'm attempting to build the libraries on a standard Windows-XP
machine.  Thank you.

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Rodney Dunning
Assistant Professor of Physics
Birmingham-Southern College