scipy install on mountain lion failing

Question

When I try to install scipy using pip install scipy it fails with the following traceback

Downloading/unpacking scipy
  Downloading scipy-0.10.1.tar.gz (6.2M         


        

Answer 1

if you use homebrew, you can try the following (thanks to https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/707):

brew tap samueljohn/homebrew-python
brew install numpy
brew install scipy