On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Damon McDougall
<damon.mcdoug...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I tried a `python setupegg.py develop` to diagnose a bug for someone.
> Now my mpl git repo has magically appeared at the front of my
> sys.path. Since I cleaned out the lib/matplotlib directory, I now get
> import errors like "No module named matplotlib._path" because it's
> looking in my git repo for all the modules. I've spent about an hour
> trying to figure out what else might modified my sys.path and this is
> the conclusion I've come to. I've nuked ~/.pip and ~/.ipython to no
> avail.
>
> Did setupegg modify my sys.path? If so, how do I change it back?
>
>
setupegg develop does not modify the sys.path (at least, not permanently --
not sure exactly what it does deep under the hood). What it does is adds a
.egg-lnk file in your site-packages directory to point to your source code
tree. Get rid of that .egg-lnk file, and you should be good to go.
Ben Root
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