Installation of Compatible version of Numpy and Scipy on Abaqus 6.13-2 with python 2.6.2

Question

Can anyone give inputs/clue/direction on installation of compatible version of numpy and scipy in abaqus python 2.6.2? I tried installing numpy-1.6.2, numpy-1.7.1 and numpy-1.8.1. But all gives an error of unable to find vcvarsall.bat. because it doesn't have a module named msvccomplier. based on the some of the answers, I verified the visual studio version and it is 2008.

Could anyone please give direction on this?

Answer 1

What you should do is: install python 2.6.2 separately onto your system (it looks like you are using windows, right?), and then install scipy corresponding to python 2.6.2, and then copy the site-packages to the abaqus folder.

Note that 1) you can't use matplotlib due to the tkinter problem; 2) the numpy is already coming with abaqus so you don't need to install it by hand.