Pandas

Installing

This was a royal pain in the ass.

I had some problems with my easy_install and pip, probably b/c they were not associated with the right versions of Python. I was able to use Vritualenv to debug some of the problems, and basically ended up having to remove my custom-installed version of numpy in favor of the pip-installed version of numpy. This broke my custom-installed version of scipy and ipython as well, so I had to install those using pip. These ended up not working, and I had to go back to my old, by-hand installations. So, in the end, I don't actually know what the right procedure is; I just have a vague sense that there were some problems, that got resolved, by something I did, at some point.

Like I said, it was a big damn mess.

First, I downloaded and installed easy_install from source.

Then, I ran the following commands:

$ sudo easy_install pip
$ sudo pip install numpy
$ sudo pip install pandas

and installing tables stuff:

$ sudo pip install numexpr
$ sudo pip install tables