Re: [Matplotlib-users] scipy, matplotlib import errors

[Robert K. <rob...@gm...>]

John [H2O] wrote:
> I wonder if I've misunderstood or made a mistake? I renamed a file:
> /usr/lib/python2.5/new.py to /usr/lib/python2.5/new.bak
> 
> and everything worked... but now, after logging out and logging back in
> again, I'm getting the problem again?
> 
> Perhaps that was the standard libraries module? But I cannot find any other
> new.py files?

/usr/lib/python2.5/new.py is the standard library's module. Leave it alone. If 
you are still having problems and cannot find another new.py module anywhere, 
edit pkg_resources.py to print out new.__file__ just before where the exception 
occurs.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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