Re: [Distutils] wxPython and wx

2013-06-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Yuval Greenfield ubershme...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to install wx and tried to sudo pip install wx. Sadly this https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wx module described as my first python module, like php file_get_contents shadowed the wxpython I eventually installed

Re: [Distutils] wxPython and wx

2013-06-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Yuval Greenfield ubershme...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: Packages are allowed to have the same module names as other packages. In this case it's a bit unfortunate, but it should reasonably have been

Re: [Distutils] wxPython and wx

2013-06-07 Thread Yuval Greenfield
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Lennart Regebro rege...@gmail.com wrote: Packages are allowed to have the same module names as other packages. In this case it's a bit unfortunate, but it should reasonably have been quickly solved by uninstalling the wx package? //Lennart It wasn't easy

Re: [Distutils] wxPython and wx

2013-06-07 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Yuval Greenfield ubershme...@gmail.com wrote: I realize we don't want to start squat-wars. But pypi's wx is a 5 liner that absolutely no person would ever want installed. At the least, pip should warn me when I install wx that it's probably not what I'm looking