[SciPy-user] Certain subpackages fail to load

[Frank]

Hi All,

I have been trying to figure out this bit of weirdness for several  
days now. After what seems to be a clean scipy install (Mac OS 10.4.3  
Python 2.3.5), several of the subpackages, such as integrate and  
interpolate, are unavailable while others, such as linalg and fft  
seem to work just fine.

Python 2.3.5 (#1, Mar 20 2005, 20:38:20)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import scipy
 >>> help(scipy.fft)

<Usual help popped up here>

 >>> help(scipy.interpolate)
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'interpolate'
 >>>

I realize that linalg and fft are part of scipy.basic while  
interpolate and integrate are not but this does not help me toward  
understanding how to fix the problem. Furthering my confusion, many  
top-level functions are also unavailable:

 >>> help(scipy.derivative)
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'derivative'
 >>>

Curiously, I have seen in the Archives that, upon import, others get  
something like:

 >>> import scipy
Importing test to scipy
Importing base to scipy
Importing basic to scipy
Importing io to scipy
Importing fftpack to scipy
Importing special to scipy
Importing cluster to scipy
Importing sparse to scipy
Importing utils to scipy
Importing interpolate to scipy
Importing lib to scipy
Importing integrate to scipy
Importing signal to scipy
Importing optimize to scipy
Importing linalg to scipy
Importing stats to scipy

I do not get any such verbose response. >>> import scipy gives me  
nothing but a new prompt. I began to wonder if the first lines of the  
build log were relevant:

Skip importing scipy packages (NO_SCIPY_IMPORT=SciPy/setup.py)
Assuming default configuration (Lib/utils/{setup_utils,setup}.py was  
not found)

however, this is the default setup file. I certainly didn't go  
mucking around in the setup.py file save for the minor change to  
extra link arguments suggested on Fonnebeck's website to fix a  
fftpack issue on OSX. The build log seems to indicate that the  
relevant configuration files were indeed included e.g., "Appending  
scipy.interpolate configuration to scipy."

I have the complete build log handy if would help diagnosis.

Thanks so much,
Frank