>> (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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