Installing Numpy on 64bit Windows 7 with Python 2.7.3 [closed]

It looks like the only 64 bit windows installer for Numpy is for Numpy version 1.3.0 which only works with Python 2.6

http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/

It strikes me as strange that I would have to roll back to Python 2.6 to use Numpy on Windows, which makes me think I'm missing something.

Am I?

Solution 1:

Try the (unofficial) binaries in this site:

http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#numpy

You can get the newest numpy x64 with or without Intel MKL libs for Python 2.7 or Python 3.

Solution 2:

Assuming you have python 2.7 64bit on your computer and have downloaded numpy from here, follow the steps below (changing numpy‑1.9.2+mkl‑cp27‑none‑win_amd64.whl as appropriate).

1. Download (by right click and "save target") get-pip to local drive.
   
   

2. At the command prompt, navigate to the directory containing get-pip.py and run
   
   python get-pip.py
   
   which creates files in C:\Python27\Scripts, including pip2, pip2.7 and pip.
   
   

3. Copy the downloaded numpy‑1.9.2+mkl‑cp27‑none‑win_amd64.whl into the above directory (C:\Python27\Scripts)
   
   

4. Still at the command prompt, navigate to the above directory and run:
   
   pip2.7.exe install "numpy‑1.9.2+mkl‑cp27‑none‑win_amd64.whl"