Installing Pandas on Mac OSX

Question

I'm having trouble installing the Python Pandas library on my Mac OSX computer.

I type the following in Terminal:

$ sudo easy_install pandas 

But then I get the following:

Searching for pandas Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pandas/ Reading http://pandas.pydata.org Reading http://pandas.sourceforge.net Best match: pandas 0.9.0 Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pandas/pandas- 0.9.0.zip#md5=04b1d8e11cc0fc30ae777499d89003ec Processing pandas-0.9.0.zip Writing /tmp/easy_install-ixjbQO/pandas-0.9.0/setup.cfg Running pandas-0.9.0/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-ixjbQO/pandas- 0.9.0/egg-dist-tmp-EGREoT warning: no files found matching 'setupegg.py' no previously-included directories found matching 'doc/build' warning: no previously-included files matching '*.so' found anywhere in distribution warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyd' found anywhere in distribution warning: no previously-included files matching '*.pyc' found anywhere in distribution warning: no previously-included files matching '.git*' found anywhere in distribution warning: no previously-included files matching '.DS_Store' found anywhere in distribution warning: no previously-included files matching '*.png' found anywhere in distribution unable to execute gcc: No such file or directory error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 

I do have Xcode and gcc installed, however, gcc is only found when I type:

$ gcc -bash: gcc: command not found  $ gcc-4.2 i686-apple-darwin11-gcc-4.2.1: no input files 

What should I do?

Answer 1

Install pip.

Then install pandas with pip:

pip install pandas