Right at the outset, I tried conda install dill, and conda was not able to find it on the internet.
Then I downloaded both .tgz and .zip files in my default IPython directory from here:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dill
After which I tried the following commands:
conda install dill-0.2b1.zip
conda install "C:\\dill-0.2b1.zip"
and likewise for .tgz. All four attempts yielded the error:
No packages found matching:
What is it that I am doing wrong? I am trying to repeat the examples given on the following link:
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/minrk/5241793
Edit 1: I had installed dill on my system by running the .exe file from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dill. This step installed dill on my system python (C:\Python27) but not on my Anaconda Python. I am assuming that these two pythons are separate since I can import the usual modules (say numpy for instance) on both — the python I access through cmd and the one I access through my IPython notebooks — but I can import dill only on the python I accesses through cmd and not in my IPython notebooks.
解决方案
I read the quick start guide for Anaconda (link) which describes how to install packages not available in the Continuum Analytics Repository. Accordingly I went to binstar.org and searched for dill.
The following versions were available for Windows, of which I downloaded the file win-32\dill-0.2b1-py27_0.tar.bz2.
https://binstar.org/dhirschfeld/dill/0.2b1/files
Then I went to the directory where the file was downloaded and executed the following command:
conda install win-32-dill-0.2b1-py27_0.tar.bz2
I checked the package availability using the command conda list and it seems that dill is now installed for my IPython notebooks.