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Don Gateley
Don Gateley

Reputation: 31

Testing Scipy; get "No module named msvccompiler in numpy.distutils; trying from distutils"

I'm trying to test my scipy install by installing nose and entering

import scipy
scipy.test('1','10')

I get some 200 errors but one of the more common is:

.... No module named msvccompiler in numpy.distutils; trying from distutils
Missing compiler_cxx fix for MSVCCompiler

I have MS Virtual Studio 2009 installed (required for python 2.7)

Can anyone help me eliminate that error or tell my why I can't?

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 10160

Answers (2)

spock
spock

Reputation: 51

Best solution to this could be using the Anaconda Python distribution

It has most of the engineering and data analysis packages and automatically sets path of the C++ compiler. You can easily install numpy, scipy, matplotlib etc. using Anaconda. It will not show vcvarshall.bat as well as numpy.core.multiarray error for numpy

Upvotes: 1

Garrett
Garrett

Reputation: 11

You have to do 2 things to make it find the Visual Studio Compiler:

  1. In your environment, set VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS__vvv__COMNTOOLS% where vvv is your installed version. See other related questions on stackoverflow about setup.py and vcvarsall.bat

  2. Run python from a Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt. VS includes a link for this in the start menu. It sets up all the environment variables you need to run the compilers and related tools from the command line.

Upvotes: 1

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