Mac OS X install pytables and h5py

1. Install tables - need NumPy version 1.6
2. Get NumPy from sourceforge and install - need Python 2.7
3. Install python 2.7 on Lion, open new terminal (or refresh path)
4. curl http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py | python
5. curl https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py | python
6. sudo pip install ipython
7. sudo pip install tables
8. need numexpr > 1.4.1, 
9. Download anc ompile numexpr -> wants to compile using gcc-4.2
10. sudo ln -s gcc gcc-4.2
11. sudo pip install cython
12. Get HDf5 from http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/bin/mac-intel-x86_64/hdf5-1.8.8-mac-intel-x86_64-shared.tar.gz
13. /configure and compile
14. Copy the hdf5 folder whereever you want
15. python setup.py build --hdf5=/path/to/hdf5 (from the unzipped source of h5py)
16. sudo python setup.py install --hdf5=/usr/local/hdf5/ (in the unzipped dir of pytables)

In contrast, to get h5py working on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libhdf5-serial-dev

sudo easy_install h5py