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

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

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Gökhan Sever <gok...@gm...> wrote:
> I am not sure about that technical detail, but it works fine here on my
> Fedora 16 (x86_64) system.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Damon McDougall
> <dam...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, October 11, 2012, Gökhan Sever wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Damon McDougall
>>> <dam...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?

I'm not sure how to test this. I'm running `setupegg.py develop` from
within a python virtual env, but somehow it's picking up dateutil
version 1.5. I don't get the `matplotlib will provide` message... Hmm.

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