Re: [matplotlib-devel] Pull #2210 adding namespace package mpl_toolkits and Python 2.7

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

On 2015/07/14 3:59 AM, Albert Chin wrote:
> I've built matplotlib-1.4.3 with Python 2.7.5, 3.3.2, 3.4.3. Python
> 3.3.2 and 3.4.3 work ok. With Python 2.7.5, I get:
>      File "/tmp/lines3d_demo.py", line 2, in <module>
>        from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
>    ImportError: No module named mpl_toolkits.mplot3d
>
> There is no __init__.py in the mpl_toolkits directory unlike with
> matplotlib-1.3.1:
>    $ ls -l /opt/TWWfsw/matplotlib14/lib/python27/mpl_toolkits
>    total 64
>    drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root root    53 Jul 14 13:51 axes_grid
>    drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root root    32 Jul 14 13:51 axes_grid1
>    drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root root    29 Jul 14 13:51 axisartist
>    -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root  3830 Dec 23  2014 exceltools.py
>    -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root  3817 Jul 14 13:51 exceltools.pyc
>    -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root  3817 Jul 14 13:51 exceltools.pyo
>    -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root 19346 Dec 23  2014 gtktools.py
>    -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root 19745 Jul 14 13:51 gtktools.pyc
>    -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root 19706 Jul 14 13:51 gtktools.pyo
>    drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root root    17 Jul 14 13:51 mplot3d
>    drwxr-xr-x+ 3 root root    12 Jul 14 13:51 tests
>
> If I copy the matplotlib-1.3.1 __init__.py to
> /opt/TWWfsw/matplotlib14/lib/python27/mpl_toolkits, then everything
> works ok.
>

I suspect this results from some aspect of your system; we routinely 
build and test with python 2.7.x.  Maybe your python 2.7 setuptools 
needs to be updated?

Eric