With things running smoothly with my SciPy setup, I have been having fun trying out new libraries. Here's just a short list of some that I have been playing with. [Read more…]

What follows is my collection of notes about installing a full 64-bit stack of NumPy, SciPy, PyLab, and all that entails on a fresh Snow Leopard system. If it helps out someone else trying to do something similar that would be great. If you look through what I've done and find things that could have been done better or in a more correct way, let me know. We will be building most things needed from source.

After trial and error, and plenty of the latter, I have streamlined the process down to installing the following, in order: gfortran, FFTW, UMFPACK, NumPy, SciPy and finally matplotlib (which includes PyLab). [Read more…]