> At 07:13 AM 3/5/2007 -0800, Bob Ippolito wrote: > >On 3/5/07, Christopher Fonnesbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have been using bdist_mpkg to build Mac distributions of Numpy, > > Matplotlib > > > and other scientific programming packages. However, when I use > > bdist_mpkg to > > > build matplotlib, the resulting package is broken. In particular, I get: > > > > > > In [3]: import pylab > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > exceptions.ImportError Traceback (most > > > recent > > > call last) > > > > > > /Users/chris/<ipython console> > > > > > > > > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pylab.py > > > ----> 1 from matplotlib.pylab import * > > > > > > ImportError: No module named matplotlib.pylab > > > > > > Sure enough, when I look into the problem, it seems that the __init__.py > > > file is being left out by distutils. If I install directly using setup.py, > > > this does not occur. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > >I've never seen that happen before. Must be something funny matplotlib > >is doing... > > When a namespace package is installed using a backward-compatibility mode, > the __init__.py goes away, otherwise you'll have multiple packages > installing it. Is bdist_mpkg not including the .pth file that setuptools > generates to handle this?
I've been meaning to ask about this same issue, specifically with respect to namespace packages, bdist_rpm and imp. I've had to patch the spec files for all namespace packages that we build as RPMs, since although the .pth file works when using import or __import__, imp doesn't seem to recognize it, and that breaks Paste's app loading. So I have to have the RPMs put a dummy __init__.py in the package -- which has problems of its own, but at least leaves me with a functional install. I'm wondering if it's a known issue that imp can't/doesn't use .pth files, and if so, is there any other way to handle namespace packages in --single-version-externally-managed besides .pth files? JP _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
