python3 status of numpy

I am in the process of testing each of the RISC OS python examples and have reached currently “arraydemo”. This requires “numpy”. While trying to install numpy -
python3 -m pip install numpy
I get message:
"ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'"
Internet searches suggest this is to do with having a broken “setuptools”. AFAIK my “setuptools” is at current level.
Has anybody managed to install “numpy” recently?

At the moment you can only install pure Python modules using pip on RISC OS. numpy contains several C modules which need to be built but the build environment doesn’t exist.

Thanks Chris – I shall move on to the next example – BlendFill

I believe there is an additional gotya with numpy and FPA floating point numbers, or something around that sort of area. I did get it to build once, but asking it to do simple calculations resulted in totally wrong results. I’ve not delved into it any further yet.

It’s probably time I spent some more time on python as there are a few things that have come up that I should probably look at.