[Numpy-discussion] [ANN] numpy 1.4.0 rc2

[Gökhan Sever]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Gökhan Sever <gokhansever at gmail.com>wrote:
>
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>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:57 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Gökhan Sever <gokhansever at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:05 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> I have just released the 2nd release candidate for numpy 1.4.0, which
>>> >> fixes a few critical bugs founds since the RC1. Tarballs and binary
>>> >> installers for numpy/scipy may be found on
>>> >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy.
>>> >>
>>> >> cheers,
>>> >>
>>> >> David
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>>> > This release results with the same import error on my system that I
>>> posted
>>> > on
>>>
>>> Don't use develop, and install numpy normally, but from scratch.
>>> Develop mode has some quircks, and it does not worth it unless you
>>> want to work on numpy code yourself IMHO,
>>>
>>
>> OK, a clean svn check-out and python setup.py install I get another
>> interesting import error:
>>
>> [gsever at ccn ~]$ pwd
>> /home/gsever
>> [gsever at ccn ~]$ python
>>
>> Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Jun  8 2009, 16:07:26)
>> [GCC 4.4.0 20090506 (Red Hat 4.4.0-4)] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>> import numpy
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>   File "/home/gsever/Desktop/python-repo/numpy/numpy/__init__.py", line
>> 123, in <module>
>>     raise ImportError(msg)
>> ImportError: Error importing numpy: you should not try to import numpy
>> from
>>         its source directory; please exit the numpy source tree, and
>> relaunch
>>         your python intepreter from there.
>> >>>
>>
>> I launch the interpreter from a different directory than where the sources
>> located, however it still complains.
>>
>> For the develop, it is one of easiest ways to catch up the bug-fixes even
>> though I don't work on the source directly. So far besides a few glitches it
>> was always working. I also install scipy, ipython, matplotlib, sympy and all
>> other available packages using develop. Keep the checkouts in the directory
>> on my desktop and if/when necessary do svn up or whichever command it
>> corresponds to their respective vcs. I wonder how other people keep up the
>> changes easily without using develop option.
>>
>>
> I never see any of these problems and apparently no one else does either.
> There is something unique about your system. What does os.getcwd() return?
>
> Chuck
>
>
I removed numpy.egg-link (a remnant from setupegg.py develop) file under
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages. Still I get the same error. Your query
returns the same as pwd command:

>>> import os
>>> os.getcwd()
'/home/gsever/Desktop'
>>> exit()
[gsever at ccn Desktop]$ pwd
/home/gsever/Desktop




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