<p dir="auto">Installation of scipy using zc.buildout fails, because <code class="notranslate">numpy.distutils.core</code> is not available during install:</p>
<div class="highlight highlight-source-shell notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" dir="auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="$ ./bin/buildout 
Unused options for buildout: 'unzip'.
Getting distribution for 'scipy'.
Traceback (most recent call last):
[…]
  File &quot;setup.py&quot;, line 230, in &lt;module&gt;
  File &quot;setup.py&quot;, line 218, in setup_package
ImportError: No module named numpy.distutils.core
An error occurred when trying to install scipy 0.13.3. Look above this message for any errors that were output by easy_install.
While:
  Installing ipython.
  Getting distribution for 'scipy'.
Error: Couldn't install: scipy 0.13.3"><pre class="notranslate">$ ./bin/buildout 
Unused options <span class="pl-k">for</span> buildout: <span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">'</span>unzip<span class="pl-pds">'</span></span>.
Getting distribution <span class="pl-k">for</span> <span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">'</span>scipy<span class="pl-pds">'</span></span>.
Traceback (most recent call last):
[…]
  File <span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>setup.py<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>, line 230, <span class="pl-k">in</span> <span class="pl-k">&lt;</span>module<span class="pl-k">&gt;</span>
  File <span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">"</span>setup.py<span class="pl-pds">"</span></span>, line 218, <span class="pl-k">in</span> setup_package
ImportError: No module named numpy.distutils.core
An error occurred when trying to install scipy 0.13.3. Look above this message <span class="pl-k">for</span> any errors that were output by easy_install.
While:
  Installing ipython.
  Getting distribution <span class="pl-k">for</span> <span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">'</span>scipy<span class="pl-pds">'</span></span>.
Error: Couldn<span class="pl-s"><span class="pl-pds">'</span>t install: scipy 0.13.3</span></pre></div>
<p dir="auto">See <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="212921526" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/8762" data-hovercard-type="pull_request" data-hovercard-url="/numpy/numpy/pull/8762/hovercard" href="https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/8762">numpy/numpy#8762</a></p>