interesting error:

[mattobrien415]

On my attempt:
easy_install sklearn_pandas

"The package setup script has attempted to modify files on your system
that are not within the EasyInstall build area, and has been aborted.

This package cannot be safely installed by EasyInstall, and may not
support alternate installation locations even if you run its setup
script by hand. Please inform the package's author and the EasyInstall
maintainers to find out if a fix or workaround is available."

I'm on windows 7 (at least I admit it!), using Python 2.7...

[paulgb]

I think this is actually this numpy issue (numpy/numpy#3160)

If you have pip installed, what's the output of pip freeze?

Otherwise, what versions of sklearn_pandas, numpy, and scikit do you have installed (if any)?

[mattobrien415]

what versions of sklearn_pandas, numpy, and scikit do you have installed
(if any)?
numpy: 1.7.0
scikit: 0.14.1

hummmm...

Matt O'Brien

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I think this is actually this numpy issue (numpy/numpy#3160numpy/numpy#3160
)

If you have pip installed, what's the output of pip freeze?

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[paulgb]

Hmm, it shouldn't be installing numpy or scikit-learn then. Try installing with --no-deps option on easy_install.

[ghost]

Same issue here. I have the same setup - numpy 1.7.0, scikit-learn 0.14.1, Windows 7 and Python 2.7.6. The --no-deps option gave the same error.

It installed fine from the zip file using setup.py install, just failed with easy_install.

Full output is as follows:

Searching for sklearn-pandas
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/sklearn-pandas/
Best match: sklearn-pandas 0.0.7
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/sklearn-pandas/sklearn-pan
das-0.0.7.tar.gz#md5=e5fc87bab6f989e9922faab3e8035b07
Processing sklearn-pandas-0.0.7.tar.gz
Writing c:\users\jamie\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-tutkjx\sklearn-pandas-0.0
.7\setup.cfg
Running sklearn-pandas-0.0.7\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir c:\users\jamie\app
data\local\temp\easy_install-tutkjx\sklearn-pandas-0.0.7\egg-dist-tmp-ifkege
error: SandboxViolation: os.open('C:\Users\Jamie.matplotlib\tmp42brpm', 342
42, 384) {}

The package setup script has attempted to modify files on your system
that are not within the EasyInstall build area, and has been aborted.

This package cannot be safely installed by EasyInstall, and may not
support alternate installation locations even if you run its setup
script by hand. Please inform the package's author and the EasyInstall
maintainers to find out if a fix or workaround is available.

[paulgb]

Thanks, this helps. I think I see what's going on:

• setupy.py imports sklearn_pandas in order to get the version number
• sklearn_pandas imports pandas
• pandas imports matplotlib
• matplotlib creates a temp directory upon being imported
• easy_install sees this and calls foul because it thinks something is being installed outside of the install path.

To get around this, I have replaced the import with code to parse the version number. I think this is a messy way to do it but it's what PEP 396 suggests when imports aren't possible (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0396/#deriving)

I haven't been able to reproduce the error, so I'm not certain this fixes your problem; please let me know.

[paulgb]

Re-opening this until I hear back, since the commit auto-closed it.