I just looked at my system more carefully.

There are two executable files

/usr/local/bin/python

and

/usr/bin/python
this is a link to python2.6

I believe that the first one is source compiled version. So, how can I get rid of it?

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Robert Faryabi <robert.faryabi@gmail.com> wrote:
it returns

/usr/local/bin/python


On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Matthieu Brucher <matthieu.brucher@gmail.com> wrote:
What does "which python" return?

2010/7/27 Robert Faryabi <robert.faryabi@gmail.com>:
> I'm getting the same
>
>>>> sys.maxunicode
> 65535
>
> I might have some "hand complied" python. Once I compiled Biopython long
> ago.
>
> The problem is I do not know how to clean up all the python version that I
> have. I tried the reinstall option. It does not work. I cannot remove the
> python. It will wipe out my operating system.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Sebastian Haase <seb.haase@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> The origin of this problem is the fact that Python supports (at least)
>> 2 types of Unicode:
>> 2 bytes and/or 4 bytes per character.
>>
>> Additionally, for some incomprehensible reason the Python source code
>> (as downloaded from python.org) defaults to 2ByteUnicode whereas
>> all (major) Linux distributions default to 4ByteUnicode.....
>>
>> ( check >>> sys.maxunicode   to see what you have; I get  1114111, i.e
>> >65535 , so I have 4 byte (on Debian) )
>>
>> So, most likely you have some "hand compiled" Python somewhere ....
>>
>> - Sebastian Haase
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Matthieu Brucher
>> <matthieu.brucher@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It's a problem of compilation of Python and numpy with different
>> > parameters. But I've tried the same yesterday, and the Ubuntu
>> > repository are OK in that respect, so there is something not quite
>> > right with your configuration.
>> >
>> > Matthieu
>> >
>> > 2010/7/27 Robert Faryabi <robert.faryabi@gmail.com>:
>> >> I can see the numpy now, but I have the problem with a shared library.
>> >> Here is the error
>> >>
>> >>>>> import numpy
>> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> >>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy/__init__.py", line 130,
>> >> in
>> >> <module>
>> >>     import add_newdocs
>> >>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy/add_newdocs.py", line 9,
>> >> in
>> >> <module>
>> >>     from lib import add_newdoc
>> >>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy/lib/__init__.py", line
>> >> 4, in
>> >> <module>
>> >>     from type_check import *
>> >>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy/lib/type_check.py", line
>> >> 8,
>> >> in <module>
>> >>     import numpy.core.numeric as _nx
>> >>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy/core/__init__.py", line
>> >> 5, in
>> >> <module>
>> >>     import multiarray
>> >> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy/core/multiarray.so:
>> >> undefined symbol: _PyUnicodeUCS4_IsWhitespace
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Do you have any idea? It seems that the UCS4 and UCS2 are related to 16
>> >> and
>> >> 8 bit unicode.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Charles R Harris
>> >> <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Robert Faryabi
>> >>> <robert.faryabi@gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I am new to numpy. Hopefully this is a correct forum to post my
>> >>>> question.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I have Ubuntu Luci system. I installed Python 2.6.5 and Python 3.0 as
>> >>>> well as python-numpy using Ubuntu repository.
>> >>>> When I import the numpy into python, I get the following error.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> >> import numpy
>> >>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >>>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> >>>> ImportError: No module named numpy
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The package cannot be located.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Then I tried to point the interpreter to the numpy
>> >>>>
>> >>>> >>> sys.path.append('/usr/lib/
>> >>>> python2.6/dist-packages')
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I use an install.pth file
>> >>>
>> >>> $charris@ubuntu ~$ cat
>> >>> ~/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/install.pth
>> >>> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
>> >>>
>> >>> You will need to create the .local directory and its subdirectories.
>> >>> Don't
>> >>> use Python 3.0, use 3.1 or greater if you want to experiment.
>> >>>
>> >>> <snip>
>> >>>
>> >>> Chuck
>> >>>
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