[matplotlib-devel] import collections problem

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

Working on my refactor of axes.py, I needed to use defaultdict and possibly
OrderedDict from the collections standard module.  Problem is that
matplotlib already has a collections.py module in lib/matplotlib.  This
file takes precedence in the import process and gets in my way.  Does
anybody know of any way to force the import to do what I want?  This has
completely stumped me.

Thanks,
Ben Root