Installing NumPy

This is the ANSWER for installing numpy on Windows 8 64 bit.

All you need is:

1.Python, installed in your system, in my case its c:\Python27, its 2.7 version.

2.Install pip if not available.

3. download "numpy-1.9.2+mkl-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl" file for 64 bit, you can find this here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#numpy

if you don't find it there use mine at: https://github.com/pawanputtaswamy/Libs

How to install:

1.open command prompt (Windows + r and type cmd)

2.Go to pip directory, in my case (cd c:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe)

3.Run the following command: pip.exe install \numpy-1.9.2+mkl-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl

Done

Numpy, Scypy and pygame all have windows installers; You are advised to use these installers in favor of archive versions. Make sure you match the version (3.2, 2.7) and archetecture (i386 or x86_64) as the python binary you have installed.

Alternatively, depending on your time constraints and situation you could use Enthought's prepackaged python distribution for Windows. The free version:http://www.enthought.com/products/epd_free.phphas everything you need except pygame which you should be able to install with easy_install once everything else is in place.