Re: Problems on Installing New Fipy

On Jul 16, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Zhiwen Liang wrote:

> I tried the diffusion example but got the following error:
:
:

>  "matplotlibViewer: 'module' object has no attribute 'ion'"

leads me to believe that you have a module (or something) called  
"pylab" somewhere on your PYTHONPATH that is confusing matters. What  
does

  $ ls -l ~/Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/

return?

> It would be more convenient to use "stow" to have different versions  
> of the same application and then "stow" the version you like. This  
> will require installing things in a stow directory.

I've never heard of "stow", but found this:

   http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t331589-is-there-any-way-to-make-python-play-well-with-stow.html

I've used FiPy with virtualenv and it works fine (I will do some  
confirmatory tests, however)