scipy code runs in empty directory, not another

B

Beliavsky

After installing numpy, scipy, and matplotlib for python 2.6 and
running the code from http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/OptimizationDemo1
(stored as xoptimize.py) in a directory with other python codes, I got
the error messages

C:\python\code\mycode>python xoptimize.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "xoptimize.py", line 3, in <module>
from pylab import *
File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\pylab.py", line 1, in <module>
from matplotlib.pylab import *
File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line
133, in <module>
import sys, os, tempfile
File "c:\python26\lib\tempfile.py", line 34, in <module>
from random import Random as _Random
File "C:\python\code\mycode\random.py", line 1, in <module>
from RandomArray import standard_normal
File "C:\python\code\mycode\RandomArray.py", line 1, in <module>
import ranlib
ImportError: No module named ranlib

When I create a new directory, copy xoptimize.py there, and run, the
program works. Can someone explain why other files are "interfering"
in the first case? Thanks.
 
C

Chris Gonnerman

After installing numpy, scipy, and matplotlib for python 2.6 and
running the code from http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/OptimizationDemo1
(stored as xoptimize.py) in a directory with other python codes, I got
the error messages

C:\python\code\mycode>python xoptimize.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "xoptimize.py", line 3, in<module>
from pylab import *
File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\pylab.py", line 1, in<module>
from matplotlib.pylab import *
File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line
133, in<module>
import sys, os, tempfile
File "c:\python26\lib\tempfile.py", line 34, in<module>
from random import Random as _Random
File "C:\python\code\mycode\random.py", line 1, in<module>
from RandomArray import standard_normal
File "C:\python\code\mycode\RandomArray.py", line 1, in<module>
import ranlib
ImportError: No module named ranlib

When I create a new directory, copy xoptimize.py there, and run, the
program works. Can someone explain why other files are "interfering"
in the first case? Thanks.
You'd need to post a list of the files in the directory before we'd have
any idea why this is happening.

-- Chris.
 
D

Diez B. Roggisch

Beliavsky said:
After installing numpy, scipy, and matplotlib for python 2.6 and
running the code from http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/OptimizationDemo1
(stored as xoptimize.py) in a directory with other python codes, I got
the error messages

C:\python\code\mycode>python xoptimize.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "xoptimize.py", line 3, in <module>
from pylab import *
File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\pylab.py", line 1, in <module>
from matplotlib.pylab import *
File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line
133, in <module>
import sys, os, tempfile
File "c:\python26\lib\tempfile.py", line 34, in <module>
from random import Random as _Random
File "C:\python\code\mycode\random.py", line 1, in <module>
from RandomArray import standard_normal
File "C:\python\code\mycode\RandomArray.py", line 1, in <module>
import ranlib
ImportError: No module named ranlib

When I create a new directory, copy xoptimize.py there, and run, the
program works. Can someone explain why other files are "interfering"
in the first case? Thanks.

Because you probably have a file named the same way as some pyhon or
matplotlib module, and that shadows the "real" one. Try copying more and
more files into your new directory to find the culprit.

Diez
 
B

Benjamin Kaplan

On 11/13/2010 07:52 AM, Beliavsky wrote:

After installing numpy, scipy, and matplotlib for python 2.6 and
running the code from http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/OptimizationDemo1
(stored as xoptimize.py) in a directory with other python codes, I got
the error messages

C:\python\code\mycode>python xoptimize.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "xoptimize.py", line 3, in<module>
    from pylab import *
  File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\pylab.py", line 1, in<module>
    from matplotlib.pylab import *
  File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line
133, in<module>
    import sys, os, tempfile
  File "c:\python26\lib\tempfile.py", line 34, in<module>
    from random import Random as _Random
  File "C:\python\code\mycode\random.py", line 1, in<module>
    from RandomArray import standard_normal
  File "C:\python\code\mycode\RandomArray.py", line 1, in<module>
    import ranlib
ImportError: No module named ranlib

When I create a new directory, copy xoptimize.py there, and run, the
program works. Can someone explain why other files are "interfering"
in the first case? Thanks.

You'd need to post a list of the files in the directory before we'd have any idea why this is happening.

No he doesn't. We can get that from the traceback.


Bekiavsky, there's a file called random.py in your folder. Python
doesn't treat the standard library fila any differently than it does
your own files. It searches the path for the first file called
"random" that it sees and it imports that. Since it finds your file
first, that's the one it imports. The failure you're seeing is
actually in your code-you're trying to import a module that shouldn't
exist.
In
 
D

Dave Angel

After installing numpy, scipy, and matplotlib for python 2.6 and
running the code from http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/OptimizationDemo1
(stored as xoptimize.py) in a directory with other python codes, I got
the error messages

C:\python\code\mycode>python xoptimize.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "xoptimize.py", line 3, in<module>
from pylab import *
File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\pylab.py", line 1, in<module>
from matplotlib.pylab import *
File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line
133, in<module>
import sys, os, tempfile
File "c:\python26\lib\tempfile.py", line 34, in<module>
from random import Random as _Random
File "C:\python\code\mycode\random.py", line 1, in<module>
from RandomArray import standard_normal
File "C:\python\code\mycode\RandomArray.py", line 1, in<module>
import ranlib
ImportError: No module named ranlib

When I create a new directory, copy xoptimize.py there, and run, the
program works. Can someone explain why other files are "interfering"
in the first case? Thanks.
You have a file random.py in your code directory, which is shadowing the
system random library.

DaveA
 
T

Terry Reedy

Learn to read tracebacks. They are your debugging friend.

xoptimize imports pylab

pylab imports matplotlib

matplotlib imports tempfile (to get a plot destination)

tempfile import random (to make a 'random' tempfile name)

Look carefully at the above line. It should have been:
File "C:\python26\lib\random.py ...

Ignore the remaining error cascade.
You have a file random.py in your code directory, which is shadowing the
system random library.

As you can see in the traceback.
 

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