installing numpy from wheel format on windows ( not a supported wheel on this platform.)

Question

Installing numpy from wheel format: "...is not a supported wheel on this platform"

I know this question has been asked before but none of the solutions suggested resolved my issue.

First, just like everybody else, i went to http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#jpype and downloaded numpy-1.10.4+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl since my windows 10 is 64bit and my python is 2.7.

Then i set the path to where the file is cd Desktop and then typed pip install numpy-1.10.4+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl.

In return i get numpy-1.10.4+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.

Then, i wanted to make sure that i was running the correct whl file. So, i typed python in the terminal window to check the version and whatnot and got the following message Python 2.7.11 (v2.7.11:6d1b6a68f775, Dec 5 2015, 20:32:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32

It puzzles me that it says win32 when I have windows 10 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Either way, i tried `numpy-1.10.4+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl', to no avail.

Answer 1

Upgrade your pip

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

and try installing again using pip

pip install numpy-1.10.4+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl