What happens when you do "python -c 'import matplotlib; print
matplotlib.__path__'"?

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Zhiwen Liang <lzwpurdue-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Jonathan Guyer <guyer-R3+/ord2DXQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Jul 16, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Zhiwen Liang wrote:
>>
>>> I tried the diffusion example but got the following error:
>>
>> :
>> :
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>>>  "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/
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>> return?
>
>
>  $ ls -l ~/Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/ returns the following:
>
>  -rw-r--r--    1 liangz  liangz   214 Jul 16 14:39 easy-install.pth
> drwxr-xr-x   19 liangz  liangz   646 Jul 16 14:53 fipy
> drwxr-xr-x   10 liangz  liangz   340 Jul 16 14:39 setuptools-0.6c8-py2.3.egg
> -rw-r--r--    1 liangz  liangz    29 Jul 16 14:39 setuptools.pth
> -rw-r--r--    1 liangz  liangz  2362 Jul 16 14:39 site.py
> -rw-r--r--    1 liangz  liangz  2025 Jul 16 14:39 site.pyc
> They are just setuptools and fipy that I just installed. But I did find
> "pylab.py" under another site-packages. And matplotlib is at that same
> directory. I don't know where it comes from. Maybe it is installed together
> with matplotlib.
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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
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>> I've used FiPy with virtualenv and it works fine (I will do some
>> confirmatory tests, however)
>>
>
> Thank you very much. I didn't know that before.
> Thanks again,
> Zhiwen
>

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Daniel Wheeler