Re: [Matplotlib-users] easy_install basemap

[Jeff W. <js...@fa...>]

Lionel Roubeyrie wrote:
> Hi all,
> don't sure it's the best way, but I have tried to install basemap via 
> easy_install. the installation works fine (after a export GEOS_DIR), but it 
> impossible to import it :-( Is there a special manipulation to get it 
> working?
> Thanks
>   
Lionel:  Basemap can't be installed as an egg because it exists as a 
subpackage of matplotlib.  In order for that to work properly, the 
toolkits have to be "namespace packages".  This is fixed in svn for both 
matplotlib and basemap, so when the next version of matplotlib is 
released, I'll release a new basemap that can be installed as an egg.  
It will require some changes in your code though.  Specifically, to 
import basemap you will need to do

from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap

instead of

from matplotlib.toolkits.basemap import Basemap.

-Jeff

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