Scipy Installing to Wrong Place on Mountain Lion?

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Tried installing scipy on Mountain Lion, and couldn't get anything to work except: sudo pip install -e git+https://github.com/scipy/scipy#egg=scipy-dev which I believe installs the development version of scipy. For some reason it leaves an `src` directory inside my current folder, which contains a `pip-delete-this-directory.txt` and `scipy` directory containing all scipy files. I can import scipy from anywhere, but removing this folder removes scipy entirely. What's going on? If I try installing with simply sudo pip install scipy, I get the following ``` /System/Library/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Headers/vecLib.h:22:4: error: " is deprecated. Please #include and link to Accelerate.framework." #error " is deprecated. Please #include and link to Accelerate.framework." ^ 1 error generated. error: Command "clang -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -g -Os -pipe -fno-common -fno-strict-aliasing -fwr…

Accepted Answer

From the `pip` documentation page:

Edit mode Packages normally install under site-packages, but when you’re making changes, it makes more sense to run the package straight from the checked-out source tree. “Editable” installs create a .pth file in site-packages that extends Python’s import path to find the package:

```
$ pip install -e path/to/SomePackage
```

So this means you can simply solve your problems by running:

```
 $ sudo mv src/scipy/scipy /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/
```

And then if you want to be clean, you can edit the file to remove the line that was added by `pip`:

```
 $ sudo vim /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth
```

Scipy Installing to Wrong Place on Mountain Lion?

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