Re: [Matplotlib-users] Cannot run basemap examples

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

Mike Elson wrote:

>Hello Jeff,
>
>I tried loading the file etopo20.pickle by itself but got the same error:
>
>import cPickle
>a = cPickle.load(open('etopo20.pickle','rb'))
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>  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 0xb71e48b4>, (<class
>'numarray.numarraycore.NumArray'>, {'_type': 'Floa\t32', '_itemsize':
>4, '_shape': (1081,), '_bytestride': 4, '_byteoffset': 0, '_\version':
>'1.1', '_byteorder': 'big', '_data': <memory at 082ee9a0 with
>size:43\24 held by object 082ee980 aliasing object 00000000>,
>'_strides': (4,)}))
>
>Looking at etopo20.pickle itself, the 4th line reads
>'cnumarray.generic' - I'm guessing that means it is stored using
>numarray.
>Do I need a specific version of python or numarray to read it? I have
>both Numeric (23.1) and numarray installed already.
>
>Mike.
>
>  
>
Mike:  Not that I know of.  I'm puzzled by this one.  You said in your 
first message that you are using numarray 0.8 - I think that might be 
too old.  It's up to 1.3.1 now, and I'm sure I created that pickle with 
at least 1.1.

-Jeff

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