> Jon: It seems like PIL is not "setuptools-aware"... Thanks Jeff, this is good to know. I went back and reinstalled Python(x,y) and installed PIL as part of the setup options, then it all worked fine. Very useful to know that sometimes easy_install isn't the right option for installing plugins.
(Thanks also to Mauro for your suggestion.) Regards, Jon 2009/1/13 Jeff Whitaker <jsw...@fastmail.fm>: > Jon Blower wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm a matplotlib newbie and have recently installed matplotlib as part >> of the Python(x,y) distribution for Windows. I want to do some image >> manipulation (e.g. basemap.warpimage()) and my initial installation >> didn't have the Python Imaging Library (PIL) installed, so I installed >> this via easy_install: >> >> easy_install PIL >> >> This worked, but it was installed in such a way that the import command >> >> from PIL import Image >> >> doesn't work (it seems that "import Image" works instead). This means >> that basemap.warpimage() does not work because it expects to be able >> to import PIL through the former expression. I can try to install PIL >> some other way, but does this indicate that the basemap module should >> try both ways of importing PIL, as different users might have >> different setups? Is there a quick fix that I could apply? >> >> (Apologies if this question has been asked before - I did some >> Googling and didn't find anything.) >> >> Regards, Jon >> >> > > Jon: It seems like PIL is not "setuptools-aware"... > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2007-May/004451.html > > PIL does not get installed correctly using setuptools. You'll need to > install the old-fashioned way, i.e. "python setup.py install". > > -Jeff > > > > -- > Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 > Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 > NOAA/OAR/PSD R/PSD1 Email : jeffrey.s.whita...@noaa.gov > 325 Broadway Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-113 > Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Web : http://tinyurl.com/5telg > > -- Dr Jon Blower Technical Director, Reading e-Science Centre Environmental Systems Science Centre University of Reading Harry Pitt Building, 3 Earley Gate Reading RG6 6AL. UK Tel: +44 (0)118 378 5213 Fax: +44 (0)118 378 6413 j.d.blo...@reading.ac.uk http://www.nerc-essc.ac.uk/People/Staff/Blower_J.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
