[SciPy-user] bvp install / import problem :again

[Robert Kern]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:21, ozan bakis <ozanbakis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I am trying to install and use the bvp package in scipy. I download
> the source file in my home directory, then
>
>   $ cd bvp-0.2.4
>   $ sudo python setup.py build
>   $ sudo python setup.py install
>
> When I type (in python)
>>>> import scipy.special
>>>> import bvp
>
> Iget the following error message:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "bvp/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
>    import colnew
>  File "bvp/colnew.py", line 63, in <module>
>    import _colnew
> ImportError: No module named _colnew

Change directories. Python looks in the current directory before
site-packages, so you are picking up the unbuilt source files, not the
installed files.

-- 
Robert Kern

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though it had an underlying truth."
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