Re: [Matplotlib-users] basemap 0.9.9.1 - Leopard error importing

[Tiago R. <wo...@gm...>]

Thanks Jeff, I indeed had used the egg. Will try doing a standar  
install.

Tiago

On Mar 23, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
> Tiago Ribeiro wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running a vanilla copy of Mac OS X 10.5.2 and just installed   
>> matplotlib-0.91.2, geos-2.2.3 and baselib-0.9.9.1 from their  
>> sources.  The matplotlib examples work fine, but when trying to  
>> import baselib,  it says it cannot find it:
>>
>> >>> from matplotlib.toolkits.basemap import Basemap
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> ImportError: No module named basemap
>> >>>
>>
>> Any idea of what could be happening? The lib is definitively on my   
>> path (/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/)
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Tiago
>>
>>
>>
> Tiago:  This will happen if matplotlib is installed as an egg, due  
> to a bug in the way toolkits are installed.   Do you see a  
> matplotlib*egg file in /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ ?
>
> If so, all I can suggest is reinstalling matplotlib the 'normal'  
> way, i.e. python setup.py install.  This bug is fixed in svn so this  
> won't happen with the next release.
>
> -Jeff
>
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