Laura, that was it! Thank you so much. However, now I am confused about what I need to type into the Command prompt window (on a 64-bit windows computer, using python 2.7) in order to convert a folder of data files. Does anyone know the proper code to do this?
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: > In a message of Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:50:26 -0400, Ila Kumar writes: > >Hello, > > > >I am a new Python user attempting to use bioread ( > >https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bioread/0.9.5) to convert files from > >aqknowledge to matlab. I am using a 64-bit PC, and I have downloaded > >Matlab, Python, numpy, scipy and bioread. Can someone walk me through the > >installation process for this package? I can't seem to get it to work. > > > >Thank you so much for your help!! > >_______________________________________________ > >Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > >To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > You are getting something like: > Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in > /tmp/pip-build-T3JieI/bioread > Storing debug log for failure in /home/lac/.pip/pip.log > > when you run pip, correct? > > So you go read the package documentation and discover that bioread > uses easy_install (which you are beginning to learn to hate) instead of > pip. > > So then you try that and you get crud like this: > .... > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 43, > in _execfile > exec(code, globals, locals) > File "/tmp/easy_install-PGpger/bioread-0.9.5/setup.py", line 3, in > <module> > ImportError: No module named ez_setup > > Correct? > > If this is your problem, go install this package: > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ez_setup > > And then install bioread, still with easy_install > > If this isn't your problem, > write back with more of what is not working, please. > > Hope this is it :) > Laura > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
