ARCHIVED: How to get NumPy and SciPy working in a virtualenv under Mac OS X

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ARCHIVED: How to get NumPy and SciPy working in a virtualenv under Mac OS X

Please don't use this method any more, this is ages old (2014, Python 2.7).

Assuming you use virtualenv for Python library hygiene. Now you want Numpy and Scipy in your project.

NumPy and SciPy can not be easily installed under Mac OS X with a simple

pip install scipy

due to heavy dependencies.

However, homebrew-python provides them as recipes. Therefore you can

1. install numpy and scipy from homebrew-python
2. symlink them into a virtualenv

Try it:

brew install homebrew/python/scipy
python -m virtualenv venv-playground
ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/{numpy,scipy}* venv-playground/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
source venv-playground/bin/activate
pip freeze

You should see something like this:

numpy==1.9.0
scipy==0.14.0
wsgiref==0.1.2

Sorry, this gist is ages old and I don't recommend this method any more.

Probably why it doesn't work! Oh well.