[AstroPy] ImportError: cannot import name _compiler

[Erik Bray]

It looks like you're still in the directory you unpacked the astropy source 
into.  Python adds the current working directory to your import path by default, 
so if you're still in the source tree it will try to import from there, rather 
than the version you installed. (Still odd since it should still work even then.)

Incidentally, unless you have a specific reason not to, you should use pip to 
install Python packages:

pip install --user astropy

Erik

On 07/09/2015 08:47 AM, Steffen Brinkmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed locally with
>
> $ python setup.py install --user
>
> Now when I import astropy, I get
>
>
>>>>
> In [1]: import astropy
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
> <ipython-input-1-d192094ef7da> in <module>()
> ----> 1 import astropy
>
> /disk1/brinkmann/code/astropy-1.0.3/astropy/__init__.py in <module>()
>       323     log = _init_log()
>       324
> --> 325     _initialize_astropy()
>       326
>       327     from .utils.misc import find_api_page
>
> /disk1/brinkmann/code/astropy-1.0.3/astropy/__init__.py in
> _initialize_astropy()
>       236
>       237     try:
> --> 238         from .utils import _compiler
>       239     except ImportError:
>       240         if is_astropy_source_dir:
>
> ImportError: cannot import name _compiler