[Gnuplot-py-users] Re: Gnuplot python interface

[Michael H. <mh...@al...>]

John wrote:
> I have something of a problem with your otherwise lovely python
> interface ( v.1.7 on Mandriva Linux )
> 
> Using install with --home set to the directory I want the resultant
> files in, I get lots of problems with Gnuplot.py not being found. I had
> a quick look on the mailing list, and it was all as a result of iffy
> installs. The software appears to have installed correctly, and renaming
> _Gnuplot.py to Gnuplot.py alleviated many of the problems after a little
> tweaking of the funcutils.py file, but test.py still has trouble:
> 
> AttributeError: class Gnuplot has not attribute 'Data'
> 
> this from the line:
> 
> return apply(Gnuplot.Data, (xvals, data), keyw)
> 
> in funcutils.py
> 
> Any ideas?

Gnuplot.py is a module; it has to be located in a directory called
"Gnuplot" and the directory *containing* the Gnuplot directory has to be
in the python path.  For example, if the python path includes /my/path,
then your installation should put files in places like

/my/path/Gnuplot/__init__.py
/my/path/Gnuplot/_Gnuplot.py
/my/path/Gnuplot/Data.py

et cetera.

It looks like you added the directory "/my/path/Gnuplot" to your python
path, which is incorrect.  (You will also have to undo your tweaks.)

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Michael