[SciPy-user] problems with python and numpy

[Mike Conroy]

All- I am having some baffling conflicts between python and numpy that  
seem to have arisen in recent installation. These seem to center around 
the tempfile in the Python Lib
directory.

What happens is that when I open python in an directory other than c:\  
or perhaps c:\python25, and then attempt to load numpy (or pymc which 
also loads numpy) I get:
the following error from tempfile.py
"from random import Random as _Random   ImportError: cannot import name 
Random"

Because things work fine in C:\ and some other directories, I am betting 
this is a path issue. Here is my path in case anyone sees the issue>

PATH=C:\Python25\;c:\Python25\Lib;c:\program 
files\miktex2.5\miktex\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem;c:\python25;c:\python25\bin;c:\python24\enthought\mingw\bin;c:\python24\enthought\graphviz\bin;c:\program 
files\jedit;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program 
Files\Subversion\bin;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\Program 
Files\Intel\MKL\10.0.1.015\ia64\bin;C:\Program Files\Common 
Files\Intuit\QBPOSSDKRuntime

I have installed the following version of python and packages:

ActivePython-2.5.2.2-win32-x86
numpy-1.1.0-win32-superpack-python2.5
matplotlib-0.98.0.win32-py2.5.
scipy-0.6.0.win32-p3-py2.5
and the latest svn-updated pymc2.0

Thanks for any help. Meantime things work but what a pain to be stuck in 
one director

M




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