On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  >  However, I even consider this a python fault (i.e. I belive a python
>  >  library/module should be working no matter which files you put
>  >  around), but I think this could be fixed by using relative imports in
>  >  python2.5.
>
>
>  But then again, we are not going to break compatibility with python2.4
>  in sympy, because many users just have python2.4 as default, i.e.
>  Debian has switched to python2.5 just couple days (!) ago. All people
>  running gentoo, or Debian stable, or Debian testing have python2.4.
>  People can blame Debian for being slow, but I don't care, those are
>  the real life constrains, and I rather view it as a fact, that python
>  import statements were insufficient for a long time, so it also takes
>  a long time to get this fixed for all users.
>
>
>

You could add something to your setup.py that deletes
the old site-package/sympy/* files, before doing the
standard things it does (calls the setup function).   Then
Sympy's setup would work fine with any Python install.
Give it a shot.

William

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