Installing build dependencies¶
Setting up Python virtual environment¶
A good practice is to create a separate Python virtual environment for each project. If you don’t have virtualenv yet, install and activate it using:
curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/virtualenv/master/virtualenv.py
python virtualenv.py <name_of_the_venv>
. <name_of_the_venv>/bin/activate
Installing numpy¶
Use pip
to install numpy:
pip install numpy
Numpy can also be obtained via scientific python distributions such as:
Note
You can find binaries for 64-bit Windows on http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/.