installing pybrain

Question

I am trying to install pybrain using :

git clone git://github.com/pybrain/pybrain.git

I installed git and then used windows command prompt to execute the above command. Everything goes well but when I open my python IDE, I cant import pybrain. The module doesn't exist. I wonder if I should've done something extra.

Answer 1

As per the PyBrain documentation, you're missing a second step, which is to install the code. So open a command prompt in the pybrain source directory (it'll have a setup.py file in it) and then run the following command:

python setup.py install

For reference, more detailed installation instructions can be found at the PyBrain Github wiki

Answer 2

I had same problem. Solution for me was to call cmd.exe - "Run as administrator", when navigate into extracted pybrain sources folder in this console and finally run "setup.py install"

How when check, what pybrain is installed and available? Easy! In console call python interpreter: for me it was

C:\Python27\python.exe

and after getting Python cli:

Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2012, 23:31:26) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win
32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

Type following line:

from pybrain.tools.shortcuts import buildNetwork

If no errors produced, when all is OK :)