How do I upgrade python-scipy to something newer than 0.7.0?

How can I upgrade to a higher scipy (say 0.8.0) with a minimum amount of dependency hell?

sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev gfortran python-pip

then

sudo pip install scipy

or, if you already have another version of scipy installed

sudo pip install --upgrade scipy

I dug around a bit (quite a bit actually). Initially I tried installing enthoughts python (EPD 7.0) it all looks nice and self-contained. Oddly enough though, one of the things I needed to run (spyder, check it out, brilliant IDE if your playing around with python in the natural sciences) would segfault. I wasn't able to find the problem (yet) so I had to move on.

Then I tried what I should have done in the first place, namely choosing newer debian packages - turns out the dependencies aren't as frightening as I thought: installed natty's numpy and scipy and so far, all seems to work.

sudo dpkg -i python-numpy_1.5.1-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i python-scipy_0.8.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

with the result that

$ python -c 'import scipy; print(scipy.__version__)'
0.8.0

As found HERE:

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install scipy