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

I had the same problem in 2015 with MacOSX Yosemite. I think it caused by pip's old version bug. Uninstalling pip and getting newest version of it helps. Get pip from https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html and then

$ sudo pip uninstall scipy
$ sudo pip install scipy