Re: [matplotlib-devel] import collections problem

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 07/19/2012 09:24 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> 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.

Looking at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/ it appears that for 
2.6 and later, using

from __future__ import absolute_import

should cause "import collections" to refer to the standard library.

Eric

>
> Thanks,
> Ben Root
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