Re: [Matplotlib-users] setupegg.py modifies sys.path?

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

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Damon McDougall
<dam...@gm...>wrote:

> I tried a `python setupegg.py develop` to diagnose a bug for someone.
> Now my mpl git repo has magically appeared at the front of my
> sys.path. Since I cleaned out the lib/matplotlib directory, I now get
> import errors like "No module named matplotlib._path" because it's
> looking in my git repo for all the modules. I've spent about an hour
> trying to figure out what else might modified my sys.path and this is
> the conclusion I've come to. I've nuked ~/.pip and ~/.ipython to no
> avail.
>
> Did setupegg modify my sys.path? If so, how do I change it back?
>
>
setupegg develop does not modify the sys.path (at least, not permanently --
not sure exactly what it does deep under the hood).  What it does is adds a
.egg-lnk file in your site-packages directory to point to your source code
tree.  Get rid of that .egg-lnk file, and you should be good to go.

Ben Root