Jeff - Thanks, that seemed to solve _that_ problem.  However, after  
going through the build process (again, successfully), I get the  
following when trying to import Basemap:

from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
   File "/usr/local/epd/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/ 
basemap/__init__.py", line 43, in <module>
     import _geoslib, netcdftime
ImportError: libgeos_c.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such  
file or directory

I had to compile geos because this version of Basemap didn't seem to  
work with the version of geos that EPD uses.  I built GEOS in a local  
home directory.  Do I need to build it in a global location (like /usr/ 
local)?

--Mike
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Jeff Whitaker wrote:

> Michael Hearne wrote:
>> I just built matplotlib and basemap from source on a RHEL system,  
>> with  EPD as my base Python installation.
>>
>> The build procedure for matplotlib was fairly straightforward, as  
>> was  basemap (once I read Jeff's documentation on installing).
>>
>> However, once I try to import basemap, I get an error about dbflib   
>> (ipython session below):
>>
>
> Mike:  Try editing setup.cfg and changing
>
> pyshapelib = True
>
> It's set to 'auto' by default.  I bet it's detecting an existing  
> pyshapelib install, but then can find all the parts of it that it  
> needs.
>
> -Jeff
>> In [1]: from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ImportError                               Traceback (most recent  
>> call  last)
>>
>> /home/shake/losspager/1.15/<ipython console> in <module>()
>>
>> /usr/local/epd/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/  
>> __init__.py in <module>()
>>      36 from matplotlib.lines import Line2D
>>      37 from matplotlib.transforms import Bbox
>> ---> 38 import pyproj, sys, os, math, dbflib
>>      39 from proj import Proj
>>      40 import numpy as np
>>
>> ImportError: No module named dbflib
>>
>> Where is dbflib supposed to be?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike
>>
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