On 1/20/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
At 11:20 AM 01/20/2006 -0500, Charlie Moad wrote:
On 1/19/06, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
Charlie Moad wrote:
Well here are th cvs links to them.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/matplotlib/matplotlib/setup.py?rev=1.143&view=auto
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/matplotlib/toolkits/basemap/setup.py?rev=1.33&view=auto
The matplotlib.toolkits module does not exist in the mpl cvs and it is not in the setup.py file. I have tried adding both. In basemap however, the matplotlib.toolkits module does exist and is listed in the setup.py file.
Both of these setup.py files are buggy. The packages list needs to have entries in dotted form ("matplotlib.toolkits"), not filesystem form ("matplotlib/toolkits"). Correcting them, and adding an empty lib/matplotlib/toolkits/__init__.py to the matplotlib checkout allows me to build eggs with namespace_packages set appropriately.
I finally got time to try this, and it didn't help much. Changing all the packages to dot notation works fine. I have added the toolkits/__init__.py file. Setuptools warns about not having declare_namespace in the init files. I have added this:
try: __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__) print __name__, __file__ except ImportError: pass # must not have setuptools
Note that if you don't have pkg_resources, namespace packages simply won't work, so there's little point in the try/except.
I don't want an ImportError raised for people who don't have setuptools, which is definitely a majority of mpl users.
to __init__.py in mpl's and basemap's matplotlib and matplotlib.toolkits module, hence in 4 places. Upon starting python I get this output:
matplotlib /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib-0.86.2cvs-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/matplotlib/__init__.pyc matplotlib.toolkits /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib-0.86.2cvs-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/matplotlib/toolkits/__init__.pyc
So the basemap declarations are never being reached. Where should I go from here?
Is the other egg you're looking for on sys.path?
Yes. /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/basemap-0.8-py2.4-linux-i686.egg is in easy-install.pth. I can import its top level modules, just not the conflicting matplotlib.toolkits.basemap module.