>> (I'm sending this to distutils because I have this vague notion that
    >> the problem might have something to do with setuptools or eggs on
    >> sys.path.)

    Phillip> Their mere presence on sys.path doesn't do anything, if you're
    Phillip> not importing pkg_resources or importing anything from inside
    Phillip> the eggs.

    Phillip> However, matplotlib imports pkg_resources and is a (broken)
    Phillip> namespace package.

    ... much useful feedback elided ...

Phillip,

Thanks for the response.  I'm 100% certain I would never have figured that
out on my own.  I passed your note along to John Hunter (matplotlib author),
who I happen to work with.  I suspect he'll be able to work things out
fairly quickly.

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