On Thursday 05 April 2007 17:04, Andrew Straw wrote: > Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > Installing an egg today, I got this message from easy_install: > > > > /usr/bin/easy_install:5: UserWarning: Module dateutil was already > > imported from > > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib-0.87.7-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/d > >ateutil/__init__.pyc, but > > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/python_dateutil-1.1-py2.4.egg is being > > added to sys.path > > from pkg_resources import load_entry_point > > > > Investigating, it seems that Matplotlib includes python-dateutils > > wholesale in its egg, instead of depending on the python-dateutils egg > > and installing that, thus generating warning messages like these. > > Where did you get that matplotlib egg? Particularly on linux (which you > appear to be using), distributing .eggs for matplotlib would be > problematic because of all the 3rd party libraries required, so I didn't > think they'd be officially distributed. Indeed, I don't see one for > linux on the matplotlib download page.
I create it myself using the supplied setupegg.py script. > > Would be possible to > > remove the dateutil module from future matplotlib eggs and simply rely on > > the python-dateutils egg? > > Since matplotlib doesn't require setuptools (other than for Python 2.3), > there can be no install_requires field. (And even if we had it in the > install_requires field, does your linux distribution's python-dateutil > package include the egg info required for the install_requires field to > work?) Gotcha. > If you built the egg yourself, you can re-build it with dateutil > installed and then matplotlib's setup.py file won't include its own > dateutil. Ditto for pytz. Thanks for the tip! Installed pytz and dateutil, and the created egg is what I desired. Thanks! j -- Joshua Kugler Lead System Admin -- Senior Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0xDB26D7CE PO Box 80086 -- Fairbanks, AK 99708 -- Ph: 907-456-5581 Fax: 907-456-3111 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
