[Gnuplot-py-users] 'import Gnuplot' statement is not working on WinXP

[Brian C. <bdc...@ya...>]

Been trying awhile, read as much as 
I can (all FAQs, README’s, etc), and need help. Basically I cannot get the 
‘import Gnuplot” statement to work in a python script. Details as 
follows.
 
Working in Windows XP 
professional.
Installed gnuplot.py 1.8, by 
unzipping to a directory, and from that directory 
running:
     python setup.py 
install
When running the setup, got a 
warning about “licence” being deprecated in favor of “license”; but everything 
seems to have installed/copied OK.
Have the following directory in 
place now (with the proper capital “G” which was a problem for 
some):
     C:\Program 
Files\Python26\Lib\site-packages\Gnuplot
Editted the gp_win32.py file to 
point to where pgnuplot.exe is located on my 
PC.
Ran all the demo scripts, and got 
all the demo graphs properly. Assuming gnuplot and numpy installed 
correctly.
Added the sitepackages directory to 
my PATH.
 
My problem is that when I run a 
python script that tries to “import Gnuplot” it gets an error. For instance my 
gpxplot.py script prints out this after trying to import 
Gnuplot.
 
gnuplot.py is not 
found
Exception AttributeError: 
"GnuplotProcess instance has no attribute 'gnuplot'" in <bound method 
GnuplotProcess.__del__ of <Gnuplot.gp_win32.GnuplotProcess instance at 
0x0127C170>> i
Exception AttributeError: "Gnuplot 
instance has no attribute 'gnuplot'" in <bound method Gnuplot.__del__ of 
<Gnuplot._Gnuplot.Gnuplot instance at 0x0127C148>> 
ignored
 
Did some additional reading about 
python installs, and found that often a *.pth file is required to specify the 
path to the directory which contains the module, so following the conventions of 
some other packages I have installed, I created a Gnuplot.pth file in the 
site-packages directory with a single line as follows (since the paths seem to 
be relative to the directory the .pth file is 
in):
     
Gnupath
 
Still no luck. The “import Gnuplot” 
still fails.
 
Anyone got any ideas? Even if it is 
next steps for debug, which I suspect needs to be around the area of how python 
locates modules in files on disk (I am not a Python expert) 
…
 
Here is the gpxplot.py script, the 
failing import is in the plot_in_gnuplot 
function.
  http://gpxplot.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/gpxplot.py

Any help 
appreciated.
 
 … 
Brian