I'm trying to use sparkplot from sparkplot.org as a module. It's normally
run from the command line and acts on an input file. I'd like to use it as
a module though to render png's for a web application.
Anyway, if I try "import sparkplot" from the interpreter, I get
>>> import sparkplot
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "sparkplot.py", line 14, in <module>
min = __builtins__.min
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'min'
The offending portion of sparkplot.py appears to be
from pylab import *
# Avoid name collisions with min and max functions from numarray module
min = __builtins__.min
max = __builtins__.max
If I run python sparkplot.py (executing from __main__ namespace?) from the
command line it works as __builtins__ appears to a name for the __builtin__
module and the __builtins__.min reference works, but when I "import
sparkplot," the __builtins__ in the sparksplot module is a dict and
__builtins__.min fails. In fact changing the above to min =
__buitlins__['min'] eliminates the error on "import sparkplot."
I think the practical answer is to clean up the namespace in sparkplot.py
(get rid of the from pylab import *) as I was planning to do anyway, but I'm
wondering what's behind this __builtins__ behavior.
Thanks,
Greg
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