[SciPy-dev] from scipy import maxentropy fails with Python 2.5

[Robert Kern]

Lars Bittrich wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I tried to compile scipy with Python 2.5 and Intel C++/Fortran compiler. The 
> first import failed:
> 
> In [1]:from scipy import *
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>    File "[...]/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/maxentropy/maxentropy.py", 
> line 69
>      from __future__ import division
> <type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'>: from __future__ imports must occur at the 
> beginning of the file
> 
> That problem was easy to fix just by following the instructions of that 
> message in 2 files:
> 
> scipy/maxentropy/maxentropy.py  
> scipy/maxentropy/maxentutils.py
> 
> Is that import necessary with Python 2.5 or even Python 2.4?

Yes. Integer division will not be changing in the 2.x releases.

I'm checking in a change that moves those statements up, but not before 
docstrings. I don't have a 2.5 interpreter to check this out with, and I can see 
no reference to it in the "What's New" documentation, so please let me know if 
it works for you.

-- 
Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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