Installing and running SciPy
According to the official website http://www.scipy.org/, SciPy (pronounced as Sigh Pie) is an open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. It is also the name of a very popular conference on scientific programming with Python. The SciPy library depends on NumPy, which provides convenient and fast N-dimensional array manipulation. The SciPy library is built to work with NumPy arrays, and provides many user-friendly and efficient numerical routines such as routines for numerical integration and optimization. Together, they run on all popular operating systems, are quick to install, and are free of charge. NumPy and SciPy are easy to use, and powerful enough to be used by some of the world's leading scientists and engineers. If you need to manipulate numbers on a computer, and display or publish the results, give SciPy a try!
Installing and running SciPy on Ubuntu
To install SciPy, simply open a command prompt and run the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install python3-scipy
To check whether everything is installed correctly, just execute the Python Shell as follows:
$ idle3
Then execute the following commands:
>>> import scipy >>> scipy.test()
Installing and running SciPy on Windows
First, download the SciPy 0.12 from the official website, http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/0.12.0b1/.
The Windows version is provided as an .exe package. To install it manually, just double click the /scipy-0.12.0b1-win32-superpack-python3.2.exe/ file.
To check whether everything is installed correctly, just navigate to Start | All Programs | Python 3.2 | IDLE (Python GUI).
Then execute the following commands:
>>> import scipy >>> scipy.test()
