Are you running the tests from the source directory? That often results
in failures that look like this.
Mike
On 05/14/2012 06:11 PM, Edward C. Jones wrote:
> I use up-to-date Debian testing (wheezy) with an amd64 architecture. I
> am trying to use matplotlib with Python 3.2, I downloaded
> matplotlib-matplotlib-v1.1.0-684-ge87374e.tar.gz
> I expanded the tarball and did
> python3.2 setup.py build
> and, as root,
> python3.2 setup.py install
>
> When I tried to run
> python3.2 tests.py
> I had two types of error. First the files in lib/dateutil: parser.py,
> rrule.py, etc. had not been run through 2to3. I removed back-quotes,
> used the function-call form for exceptions, and fixed some import
> statements.
>
> After fixing these errors I get 13 messages like:
>
> ERROR: Failure: AttributeError ('module' object has no attribute
> 'test_backend_svg')
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/nose/failure.py", line 37, in
> runTest
> raise self.exc_class(self.exc_val).with_traceback(self.tb)
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/nose/loader.py", line 379, in
> loadTestsFromName
> module = resolve_name(addr.module)
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/nose/util.py", line 331, in
> resolve_name
> obj = getattr(obj, part)
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'test_backend_svg'
>
> These tests are all in build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/matplotlib/tests.
>
> There is a similar problem in
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28398373
>
> What is the problem and the fix?
>
>
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