> Thank you, John. Do you know why it was thought advisable to build a > special Python environment for monitor and control. Why not just use the > system-installed Python, adding whatever packages are needed?
So that we can have control over the versions of all the packages for the long haul (months to years.) Python is a configuration management nightmare... John > > Regards > > Tom > ________________________________________ > From: John Ford [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 8:25 PM > To: Kuiper, Thomas (3266) > Cc: LIST CASPER > Subject: Re: [casper] missing python modules > >> I'm trying to run the bof file from Workshop 2010 Tutorial 3, >> r_spec_2048_r105_2010_Jul_26_1205.bof. I installed katcp and corr and >> then when I ran spectrometer.py I began to get one missing module after >> another. iniparse was easy. It's standard Python. There were a few >> others that were easy to get. Then I got to spead which installed but >> with lots of compiler warnings. I got stopped at h5py. Lots of errors >> from (not so) easy_install, mostly of a ' undeclared (first use in this >> function)' variety, which suggests to me that something else should have >> been installed first. >> >> It was probably assumed that someone would not jump into the middle of a >> tutorial set but follow some expected steps in the right order. Can >> someone suggest what that sequence should be? >> >> Many thanks >> >> Tom > > Hi Tom. Here's a link to the python install we use. I didn't install > this myself. It is not clear from any documents that I know of what > exactly you need. > > https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/GB/Knowledge/BuildingMcPythonWithNumpy?sortcol=table;up=#Build_remaining_third_party_pack > > > John > > >> >> -- >> I or me? http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/page/145 >> >> >> > > >
