Hi Lennart: I solved the problem of importing python module scipy.optimize by installing Anaconda2. That worked with the drug-hunting software with both debian8 and debian9. I was short of time and, most importantly, probably incapable of understanding why debian python did not work. Of course those (and other errors) arise by merely commanding
python >>>imprt scipy.optimize thanks for your suggestions francesco On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 10:54:59AM -0400, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > With stretch: > > > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scipy/optimize/optimize.py", > line 769 > > with warnings.catch_warnings(): > > ^ > > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > The only way I can think of that makes that a syntax error would be an > actual error on an earlier line that confused the parser. > > > _________________ > > > > With jessie: > > > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scipy/optimize/optimize.py", > line 17 > > from *future* import division, print_function, absolute_import > > SyntaxError: future feature print_function is not defined > > > > So, wherever one goes, a wall is found, or is that a wall for me alone? > > Probably not too many people running scipy in general. > > Running the testsuite is probably worthwhile: > > python -c 'import numpy; numpy.test("full");' > python -c 'import scipy; scipy.test("full");' > > If it passes, you are probably set to go, and otherwise something probably > needs fixing. > > Trying on sid, numpy had 2 errors when I tried, but those might be > that the test had to be run in a specific place with some data file. > I didn't check. It complained about not finding a file with some > extension (that it didn't bother to say what was). > > -- > Len Sorensen >