[SciPy-dev] newscipy/Lib/sparse

Ed Schofield schofield at ftw.at
Wed Oct 19 08:58:17 EDT 2005


Robert Cimrman wrote:

>Then when I comment out the 'from scipy.base.fastumath import *' line in 
>Sparse.py, I get
>
>...
>/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/sparse/Sparse.py
>/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/sparse/_superlu.py
>ImportError: 
>/home/share/software/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy/sparse/_zsuperlu.so: 
>undefined symbol: strsm_
>  
>

I suggest we should strip away the SuperLU bindings until we've got the
basic sparse data types working to our satisfaction.


>As a side-note, my installation of scipy really is in 
>'/home/share/software/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages'. ipython (and the 
>regular python shell as well) nevertheless prints 
>'/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages' in the tracebacks. Does anybody know 
>how to fix it?
>  
>

Try changing your PYTHONPATH environment variable so it only points to
site-packages/ where the new scipy is installed.

-- Ed




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