Re: [Plplot-general] Import plplot in python

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2009-05-10 08:20+0900 Hiroyasu Yasuda wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have been using usually Plplot with fortran. Plplot have been helped
> my research activities greatly. Thank you very much plplot developers.
>
> Right now, I want to use plplot with Python, so I have tried to
> install plplot with python. However, python is not able to find plplot
> from python interpreter with import function. I think that my python
> environment is fine because python can find another python module such
> as numpy, scipy and matplotlib.
>
> My environment is Mac OSX 10.5.6, plplot5.9.2_1, python2.5 which unix
> tools were installed with MacPort 1.7. Actually there is no error
> message when finish to install.
>
> Please let me know how to confirm the environment is fine or not to
> run python with plplot.
>
> Sincerely,
> Hiro

Hi Hiro:

Try looking at how the python examples are run in the _installed_
examples/python directory.  There is a configured file installed there which
tells python where to find the installed PLplot python modules.

Alan

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