Question

I would like to install Python Pandas library (0.8.1) on Mac OS X 10.6.8. This library needs Numpy>=1.6.

I tried this

$ sudo easy_install pandas
Searching for pandas
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pandas/
Reading http://pandas.pydata.org
Reading http://pandas.sourceforge.net
Best match: pandas 0.8.1
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pandas/pandas-0.8.1.zip#md5=d2c5c5bea971cd760b0ae6f6850fcb74
Processing pandas-0.8.1.zip
Running pandas-0.8.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-ckAMym/pandas-0.8.1/egg-dist-tmp-0mlL7t
error: Setup script exited with pandas requires NumPy >= 1.6 due to datetime64 dependency

So I tried to install Numpy

$ sudo easy_install numpy
Searching for numpy
Best match: numpy 1.6.2
Adding numpy 1.6.2 to easy-install.pth file

Using /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages
Processing dependencies for numpy
Finished processing dependencies for numpy

So I tried again

$ sudo easy_install pandas

But the problem is still the same !

error: Setup script exited with pandas requires NumPy >= 1.6 due to datetime64 dependency

I run Python

$ python
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import numpy as np
>>> np.__version__
'1.2.1'

So Numpy 1.6 doesn’t seems to be installed correctly !

I tried to install Numpy 1.6 with pip (instead of easy_install)…

$ sudo pip install numpy
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): numpy in /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages
Cleaning up...

I added --upgrade flag

$ sudo pip install numpy --upgrade
Requirement already up-to-date: numpy in /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages
Cleaning up...

$ sudo pip install pandas
Downloading/unpacking pandas
  Downloading pandas-0.8.1.zip (1.9MB): 1.9MB downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package pandas
    pandas requires NumPy >= 1.6 due to datetime64 dependency
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    pandas requires NumPy >= 1.6 due to datetime64 dependency

----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build/pandas
Storing complete log in /Users/MyUsername/Library/Logs/pip.log

I also tried to install binary version of Numpy http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/
numpy-1.6.2-py2.6-python.org-macosx10.3.dmg but it fails !!! (installer said me that numpy 1.6.2 can’t be install on this disk. Numpy requires python.org Python 2.6 to install.

Answer 1

Don’t know if you solved the problem but if anyone has this problem in future.

$python
>>import numpy
>>print(numpy)

Go to the location printed and delete the numpy installation found there. You can then use pip or easy_install