using sage as a pure python installation
I'm trying to keep some legacy hardware useful and have no package distribution provider that will deliver a working Python installation with numpy/matplotlib ± a few other packages I use regularly. The evidence I have is that the packages I can't use are built allowing AVX instructions and when I try to import numpy, the result is "Bad instruction" or the like. My Sage 10.8 from the 3-manifolds project is the last useable scientific Python I have, and sometimes I want to run a script file simply by something like "# python myscript.py". When I invoke the python executable in the directory
../SageMath.app/Contents/Frameworks/Sage.framework/Versions/10.8/local/bin
I seem to have a working REPL that can import modules, and I have experimented with using this path to run python scripts (some requiring matplotlib, for example) in my shell environment.
My question is how much trouble I can expect to run into by going deeper into this. My system is an old MacPro running MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra).
