using macports and numpy dependency

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 4, 2009, at 19:26, Artie Ziff wrote:

> Does MacPorts "info" indicate that numpy module is configured (in
> MacPorts) to work only with python24?

Yes.


> I already had python26 installed and selected.
>
> Is there a way to specify to MacPorts not to install python24, in this
> situation, and use python 2,6 instead?

Use the port py26-numpy instead.


> Is this an example of a situation where it is better to use a  
> different
> strategy, if I do not want to use python 2.4?

Individual Python module ports are for specific versions of Python.  
The ones without a version number in the port name (py-*) are for  
Python 2.4. The others (py25-*, py26-*, py31-*) should be self- 
explanatory.