Re: [Matplotlib-users] Pylab import error due to dateutil

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

On Thursday, October 11, 2012, Gökhan Sever wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Damon McDougall <
> dam...@gm... <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'dam...@gm...');>> wrote:
>
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>> Gökhan, did you implement the symlink fix? If so, would you mind
>> making a pull request out of it? I was just about to look into doing
>> this, but if you've done it already that'd save us some effort rolling
>> out fixes for 1.2.
>>
>> Cheers.
>> Damon
>>
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>
> Hi Damon,
>
> I think adding these lines before execfile line in setupegg.py should fix
> it:
>
> import os
> os.chdir('lib')
> if not os.path.isdir('dateutil'):
>     os.symlink('dateutil_py2', 'dateutil')
> os.chdir('..')
>
>
> Could you give it a test? Do we require a similar symlink for py3?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> Gökhan
>

Awesome. I'll give it a go later on. I'm a little concerned using os.chdir.
I think Peter Wuertz/Chris Gohlke had problems with it not being threadsafe
on windows. Does the same apply here?


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