How to Bootstrap numpy installation in setup.py

Question

I have a project which has a C extension which requires numpy. Ideally, I\'d like whoever downloads my project to just be able to run python setup.py install or

Answer 1

To get pip to work, you can do similarly as Scipy: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/master/setup.py#L205

Namely, the egg_info command needs to be passed to standard setuptools/distutils, but other commands can use numpy.distutils.