Re: [Matplotlib-users] Cannot run basemap examples

[Jeff W. <js...@fa...>]

Mike Elson wrote:

>I'm having trouble running some of the examples that come with basemap
>- any th\at use the file etopo20.pickle fail with an error similar to:
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "test.py", line 12, in ?
>    topodict = cPickle.load(open('etopo20.pickle','rb'))
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/numarray/generic.py", line
>159, in Cla\ssicUnpickler
>    self.__setstate__(state)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/numarray/numarraycore.py",
>line 463, i\n __setstate__
>    self._type      = state["_type"]
>AttributeError: ("'str' object has no attribute 'name'", <function
>ClassicUnpic\kler at 0xb7b08e9c>, (<class
>'numarray.numarraycore.NumArray'>, {'_type': 'Floa\t32', '_itemsize':
>4, '_shape': (1081,), '_bytestride': 4, '_byteoffset': 0, '_\version':
>'1.1', '_byteorder': 'big', '_data': <memory at 082f8798 with
>size:43\24 held by object 082f8778 aliasing object 00000000>,
>'_strides': (4,)}))
>
>Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
>I'm using python 2.3.4, matplotlib 0.80, basemap 0.3.2, proj 4.4.8 and
>have the Python libraries numeric 23.1 and numarray 0.8 installed.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Mike.
>
>  
>
Mike:  My guess is I saved the data as a pickle Numeric (not numarray) object.  You can either install Numeric, or I can re-pickle it for you with numarray.

-Jeff


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