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

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

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Damon McDougall <dam...@gm...>
> wrote:
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>> 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?
>>
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> 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
>

That had no affect.

I figured it out. easy_install edited a file called easy_install.pth
and added a bunch of directories.

Cheers for the help.

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Damon McDougall
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