How to overcome version incompatibility with Abaqus and Numpy (Python's library)?
Question: I want to run an external library of python called `NLopt` within Abaqus
through python. The issue is that the NLopt I found is compiled against the
latest release of Numpy, **i.e. 1.9** , whereas Abaqus 6.13-2 is compiled
against Numpy 1.4. I tried to replace the Numpy folder under the site-packages
under the Abaqus installation folder with the respective one of version 1.9
that I created externally through an installation of Numpy 1.9 over Python 2.6
(version that Abaqus uses).

Abaqus couldn't even start so I guess that such approach is incorrect.

Are there any suggestions on how to overcome such issue?

Thanks guys


Answer: I have similar problems. As an (annoying) work around I usually write out
important data in text files using the regular python. Afterwards, using a
bash script, I start a second python (different version) to further analyse
the data (matplotlib etc).

