[Numpy-discussion] cannot import name ccompiler

[Jason Braswell]

Ah, thank you kindly...worked like a charm.

On 4/10/07, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jason Braswell wrote:
> > Hi, folks.  I'm a newbie trying to get started with SciPy on Windows.  I
> > installed it without problem, but when I try to import the SciPy module
> > or run the 'numpy' test, I get the following output:
> > ***********************************************
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> >   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\numpy\__init__.py", line 89, in
> test
> >     return NumpyTest().test(level, verbosity)
> >   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\numpy\testing\numpytest.py", line
> > 288, in
> > __init__
> >     from numpy.distutils.misc_util import get_frame
> >   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\numpy\distutils\__init__.py", line
> > 5, in ?
> >
> >     import ccompiler
> >   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\numpy\distutils\ccompiler.py",
> > line 6, in
> > ?
> >     from distutils.ccompiler import *
> >   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\numpy\distutils\__init__.py", line
> > 5, in ?
> >
> >     import ccompiler
> >   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\numpy\distutils\ccompiler.py",
> > line 7, in
> > ?
> >     from distutils import ccompiler #as ccompiler
> > ImportError: cannot import name ccompiler
> > *****************************************************************
> > I tried to fix it by adding damn near everything to my path, which now
> > looks like this:
>
> That's the problem. You have the numpy package directory in your sys.path,
> so
> when it tries to import the standard library's distutils package, it finds
> numpy/distutils instead. You want site-packages/ on your sys.path, not
> site-packages/numpy/.
>
> --
> Robert Kern
>
> "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
> enigma
> that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it
> had
> an underlying truth."
>   -- Umberto Eco
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