Re: [Matplotlib-users] Unknown projection '3d' even with svn version?

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Eric Emsellem <eem...@es...> wrote:

> Dear Ben
>
> thanks a lot for the quick reply.
>
> I did that (and read some posts on the web) but no luck, as it says:
>
> 1.0.0
>
> I in fact just went back to my openSuse 11.3 (Science repo) version because
> it went really wrong with scipy etc and I didn't want to mess up my setup.
> But still the same message with the Unknown projection.
>
> I have checked the axes3d.py in my mpl_toolkits and it has the "name =
> '3d'" at the beginning and the register at the end...
>
> ???
>
>
> Eric
>
>  Could you please execute the following:
>>
>> import matplotlib
>> print matplotlib.__version__
>>
>> and report back what it says?  I suspect that when you installed the svn
>> version, the original version of matplotlib is still getting loaded.
>> The projection='3d' feature is brand new to 1.0.0.
>>
>> Ben Root
>>
>

Strange indeed.  Ok, what does matplotlib.__file__ say?  Does the filename
match the path you are expecting?  At this point, I would also try putting
print statements in the register code at the end of axes3d.py to see if that
code path gets executed (can't see why not).

Ben Root