Re: [matplotlib-devel] import collections problem

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

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
Good to know.  But aren't we supporting 2.5, or did we decide on 2.6?

Ben