Re: Path issues with multiple libraries

[ali_a...@brown.edu]

Just to further elaborate the trouble I'm having with libraries, here's what I tried for pytables.

I looked up the path of the tables library on the python interpreter in the terminal:

>>> import tables

>>> tables

<module 'tables' from '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tables-2.4.0-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/tables/__init__.pyc'>

Then I added exactly this path in the path setup window in Spyder and restarted the program.

This is what I got at the startup:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/Applications/Spyder.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/spyderlib/scientific_startup.py", line 16, in <module>

    from pylab import *  #analysis:ignore

  File "pylab.pyc", line 1, in <module>

  File "/Applications/Spyder.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 222, in <module>

    from matplotlib import mpl  # pulls in most modules

  File "/Applications/Spyder.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/matplotlib/mpl.py", line 11, in <module>

    from matplotlib import finance

  File "/Applications/Spyder.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/matplotlib/finance.py", line 8, in <module>

    from urllib2 import urlopen

  File "urllib2.pyc", line 94, in <module>

  File "httplib.pyc", line 69, in <module>

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tables-2.4.0-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/tables/array.py", line 15, in <module>

    from tables import hdf5Extension

ImportError: No module named tables

On Thursday, May 9, 2013 11:01:38 AM UTC-4, ali_a...@brown.edu wrote:

Hi,

I've just started using Spyder and I've been having issues configuring my libraries. I'm on Mountain Lion osx. 

The interpreters I invoke on terminal see and import the packages just fine. But I couldn't get Spyder to see some of these packages (under the site-packages directory of python). 

Some packages are visible to Spyder (I'm guessing those are the ones that I installed using pip?), but I couldn't figure out a failsafe way to import the rest.

I tried adding the entire site-packages folder, which caused the interpreter in Spyder to crash at startup:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/site.py", line 74, in <module>

    __boot()

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/site.py", line 2, in __boot

    import sys, os, os.path

ImportError: No module named os

Then I tried adding the path to each library separately, which also did not work (the usual "no module named..." error).

The libraries I've had this problem so far are Pymatlab and pytables (i.e. tables). 

What is the correct way of making sure Spyder uses the same libraries as the system's python interpreter? I looked at the documentation but could not find the relevant chapter.

Thanks,

Ali