[SciPy-user] SciPy autotester fails on pilutil

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Christopher Barker
<Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> josef.pktd at gmail.com wrote:
>> When I installed PIL, it added the file PIL.pth to the sitepackages
>> directory, which adds the pil directory to the python path, and so
>> ``import Image`` works in the standard install (I'm on Windows).
>>
>> Can you check if you have a PIL.pth? the content is just the word PIL
>> unless it works differently with your operating system.
>
> FWIW, I think "import Image" is deprecated, in favor of "from PIL import
> Image", which removes the need for the pth file. The PIL packge has a
> LOT of stuff in it, you really don't want all of it on your sys.path.
>
>
> "Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!"
>
> (which isn't an exact fit to the topic at hand, but it's close)
>

+1
When I looked this up, I also found a numpy.pth in sitepackages, but I
don't know which installer put it there, or if I put it there myself.
Is numpy.pth necessary for anything?

Josef