This is my own mods to http://www.lowindata.com/2013/installing-scientific-python-on-mac-os-x/, which describes a scientific python environment install on Mac OS X. See also https://github.com/fonnesbeck/ScipySuperpack.
Install XCode and Commandline tools for XCode from Apple.
Also install http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/ and run brew update and brew doctor to make sure homebrew is installed correctly.
Then, you can run the following commands (I recommend one at a time so that you can deal with any errors or important warnings):
brew install python
brew install gfortran
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install nose
pip install numpy
From python:
import numpy
numpy.test()
Then from the command line again:
pip install scipy
From python:
import scipy
scipy.test()
Then from the terminal:
brew install pyqt
brew install pkg-config
pip install tornado
To install matplotlib, make sure freetype and libpng is also installed, and change some environment vars
brew install libpng
brew install freetype
export CC=clang
export CXX=clang++
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/X11/lib"
export CFLAGS="-I/usr/X11/include -I/usr/X11/include/freetype2"
pip install matplotlib
TODO: CURRENT CONFIGURATION GIVES A "KERNELMAGIC" ERROR WHEN LAUNCHING IPYTHON, but otherwise works.
pip install ipython
brew install zmq
pip install pyzmq
pip install jinja2
For data analysis, I use pandas, and to connect to SQL servers pyodbc:
pip install pandas
pip install pyodbc
For other Enthought packages, such as Traits/TraitsUI:
pip install traits
pip install traitsui
To run the traitsui demos, I also had to install configobj:
pip install configobj
I also use Pyglet and PyArrayImage. First install Mercurial. Then:
hg clone https://pyglet.googlecode.com/hg/ pyglet
cd pyglet
hg pull
hg update
python setup.py install
pip install pyarrayimage
I have not been able to get vtk running yet to run mayavi2.