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I have python installed via homebrew on my mac, OS 10.9.3

I installed scipy 0.14.0 via pip install -U scipy, using this gist's flags and the modification of export CC=gcc, and it was successful and shows up in my site-packages:

drwxr-xr-x  34 olga  admin   1.1K Jun 17 21:01 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy
lrwxr-xr-x   1 olga  admin    84B Mar  8 13:51 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy-0.13.1-py2.7.egg-info -> ../../../Cellar/scipy/0.13.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy-0.13.1-py2.7.egg-info
drwxr-xr-x   7 root  admin   238B Jun 17 21:01 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy-0.14.0-py2.7.egg-info

However, when I try to pip install a local package that requires scipy>=0.14.0, it keeps downloading and reinstalling! So I'm trying to figure out why my recent version of scipy is not getting detected.

pip list shows only version 0.13.1:

olgas-mbp-1378:~ olga$ pip show scipy
... packages removed for brevity...
scipy (0.13.1)
... packages removed for brevity ...

pip show is also unaware of version 0.14.0

olgas-mbp-1378:~ olga$ pip show scipy
---
Name: scipy
Version: 0.13.1
Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Requires:

And pip uninstall doesn't know about any version of scipy!

olgas-mbp-1378:~ olga$ pip uninstall scipy
Can't uninstall 'scipy'. No files were found to uninstall.

What's going on here? Really hope it's something simple that I'm missing.

FYI, I get the same results whether I do pip or sudo pip.

Olga Botvinnik
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  • The behaviour looks like the 0.14+ installation fails. Isn't there some error message or is the installation process finished correctly? – yedpodtrzitko Jun 18 '14 at 09:51
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    I had to `sudo pip install`, because I got `error: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/__config__.pyc: Permission denied` without `sudo`. Could that be the issue? – Olga Botvinnik Jun 18 '14 at 10:17
  • yes, if you got this error it means it wasnt installed. Does `pip show scipy` show the updated version after that `sudo pip install`? – yedpodtrzitko Jun 18 '14 at 10:36
  • No, `pip show scipy` only shows 0.13.1, even though the 0.14.0 version is there in `site-packages`. But why would this happen if I get `Successfully installed scipy` in the end? Is it time to take this to git issues? – Olga Botvinnik Jun 18 '14 at 15:45
  • So doing `rm .../site-packages/scipy-0.13.1-py2.7.egg-info` did the trick, and now only `scipy` 0.14.0 is recognized (which is correct) but this seems against the philosophies of `pip` – Olga Botvinnik Jun 18 '14 at 16:21
  • that sounds strange, but I'm glad you've solved it .) – yedpodtrzitko Jun 18 '14 at 16:22

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