Hi, The problem will arise for every package, not only numpy, so Apple fixing this is the best solution IMHO.
Matthieu 2007/11/1, Brian Granger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > It turns out that Leopard includes numpy. But it is an older version > that won't detect the version string of gfortran correctly (thus > preventing scipy from being installed). But, when I downloaded the > numpy svn and did python setup.py python was still finding the older > version of numpy. > > The problem is a trivial but unfortunate ordering of things in the > default sys.path. > > Here is the message that I sent to the pythonmac-sig about this: > ************************************************************************ > > > I have been playing around with python on Leopard today. Overall, I > am very pleased, but I just ran into a problem that will affect a > large number of users. > > In Leopard, Apple includes a number of python packages in: > > ls > /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python > > CoreGraphics easy_install.pyc > setuptools-0.6c7-py2.5.egg-info > OpenSSL fetchmailconf.py > site.py > PyObjC fetchmailconf.pyc > site.pyc > PyObjC.pth fetchmailconf.pyo > site.pyo > PyRSS2Gen-1.0.0-py2.5.egg-info libsvn > svn > PyRSS2Gen.py macholib > twisted > PyRSS2Gen.pyc > macholib-1.2.1.dev-py2.5.egg-info wx > Twisted-2.4.0-py2.5.egg-info modulegraph > wx-2.8-mac-unicode > Twisted_Words-0.4.0-py2.5.egg-info > modulegraph-0.7.2.dev-py2.5.egg-info wxPython > Twisted_Xish-0.4.0-py2.5.egg-info numpy > wxPython_common-2.8.4.0-py2.5.egg-info > altgraph numpy-1.0.1-py2.5.egg-info > wxaddons > altgraph-0.6.8.dev-py2.5.egg-info pkg_resources.py > wxaddons-2.8.4.0-py2.5.egg-info > bdist_mpkg pkg_resources.pyc > wxversion.py > bdist_mpkg-0.4.3.dev-py2.5.egg-info py2app > wxversion.pyc > bonjour > py2app-0.4.1.dev-py2.5.egg-info xattr > bonjour_py-0.2-py2.5.egg-info pyOpenSSL-0.6-py2.5.egg-info > xattr-0.5-py2.5.egg-info > dateutil > python_dateutil-1.2-py2.5.egg-info zope > easy_install.py setuptools > zope.interface-3.3.0-py2.5.egg-info > > At first I was very excited to see that Apple is including things like > setuptools, numpy, twisted...... > > But then I saw that some of the versions are quite old. Naturally, I > grabbed the latest numpy version from svn and did a python setup.py > install. Everything built just fine, but when I did an import numpy, > I got Apples version: > > >>> import numpy > >>> print numpy.__file__ > > /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python/numpy/__init__.pyc > > After looking at sys.path, it became clear what the problem is: > > Running python setup.py install on Leopard causes packages to be > installed in the usual: > > /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages > > But, Apple put this directory _after_ > > /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/python > > in sys.path. This, even if a user installs a newer version of one of > these packages, the builtin python will always use Apple's older > version. > > Obviously, I can set PYTHONPATH to get > /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages earlier in the sys.path list, but > this is going to bite many people. Is this a bug that I should report > to Apple, or is there a better work around? Also, this information > needs to be posted somewhere so we don't see this question a billion > times on various lists over the lifetime of Leopard. > > Cheers, > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > -- French PhD student Website : http://miles.developpez.com/ Blogs : http://matt.eifelle.com and http://blog.developpez.com/?blog=92
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