[SciPy-user] 3d plotting question

[Christian Kristukat]

Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
[...]

> that in the next several months.
> 
> If you are willing to try and go over a few hoops installing the
> enthought tool suite (no installers yet) you can get it from SVN and
> try out the tools inside the TVTK package.  Some preliminary
> information is available here (I'll update the pages over the next
> week):
> 
>  http://www.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/TVTK
> 

That sounds very interesting. Do I need a complete enthought installation to be
able to use tvtk? Anyway I couldn't build enthought so I would need some hints
here. I tried
python setup_enthought.py build
in a fresh svn copy and I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup_enthought.py", line 143, in ?
    setup_package()
  File "setup_enthought.py", line 135, in setup_package
    url="http://www.scipy.org/",
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/scipy_distutils/core.py", line 73, in setup
    return old_setup(**new_attr)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/core.py", line 149, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py", line 907, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py", line 927, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/command/build.py", line 107, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py", line 927, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/scipy_distutils/command/build_src.py",
line 129, in run
    self.build_sources()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/scipy_distutils/command/build_src.py",
line 215, in build_s ources
    self.build_extension_sources(ext)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/scipy_distutils/command/build_src.py",
line 249, in build_e xtension_sources
    sources = self.generate_sources(sources, ext)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/scipy_distutils/command/build_src.py",
line 291, in generat e_sources
    source = func(extension, build_dir)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/scipy_distutils/misc_util.py", line
565, in generate_svn_ve rsion_py
    local_path = extension.local_path
AttributeError: Extension instance has no attribute 'local_path'

Regards, Christian