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Evan Mason wrote:
> Thank you Jeff.  Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH works fine as a quick test, 
> though that leads me to the "ImportError: No module named 
> pkg_resources" problem that the other recent posters had.  I'll either 
> try setuptools or wait for 0.9.9 to come out - will it be long?
>
> -Evan

Evan:  Sometime next week probably,  If you have svn installed, you can 
get the latest version that way.

-Jeff

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Thank you Jeff.  Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH works fine as a quick test, though
that leads me to the "ImportError: No module named pkg_resources" problem
that the other recent posters had.  I'll either try setuptools or wait for
0.9.9 to come out - will it be long?

-Evan

Evan Mason wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just updated basemap from 0.9.4 to 0.9.8 on Mandriva Linux 2008.  I 
> also installed basemap-data-fullres-0.9.7.  I've noticed there's a 
> couple of recent posts about problems (on Macs) with 0.9.8, the 
> solution being to install setuptools until 0.9.9 comes along; the 
> problem I have is similar to the posts but not the same, so I'd like 
> to check here before proceeding with setuptools.
>
> I installed the included geos-2.2.3, then basemap-0.9.8, then 
> basemap-data-fullres-0.9.7 .  However when I now import basemap I get:
>
> In [1]: from matplotlib.toolkits.basemap import Basemap
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>           Traceback (most recent call 
> last)
>
> /home/emason/python/tools/<ipython console> in <module>()
>
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/toolkits/basemap/__init__.py 
> in <module>()
> ----> 1 from basemap import __doc__, __version__
>       2 from basemap import *
>
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/toolkits/basemap/basemap.py 
> in <module>()
>      29 from matplotlib.cbook import is_scalar, dedent
>      30 from shapelib import ShapeFile
> ---> 31 import _geos, pupynere
>      32
>      33 # basemap data files now installed in 
> lib/matplotlib/toolkits/basemap/data
>
> <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: libgeos_c.so.1: cannot open shared 
> object file: No such file or directory
>
> Yet the file, in fact a link, libgeos_c.so.1, does exist at the 
> location (/usr/local/lib) where it is supposed to be:
>
> [root@msasa lib]# ll
> total 44230
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28107924 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   581806 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos_c.a
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      830 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos_c.la*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       18 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos_c.so -> 
> libgeos_c.so.1.1.1*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       18 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos_c.so.1 -> 
> libgeos_c.so.1.1.1*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   452162 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos_c.so.1.1.1*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      790 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos.la*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       16 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos.so -> 
> libgeos.so.2.2.3*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       16 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos.so.2 -> 
> libgeos.so.2.2.3*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13443604 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos.so.2.2.3*
>
> I'd appreciate any help with this.
>
> Thanks, Evan

Evan:  I think this is a LD_LIBRARY_PATH problem.  There are two 
possible workarounds:

1) set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include 
/usr/local/lib, i.e.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

2) edit setup.py and make the following change

currents_nbp:(basemap_svn)$ svn diff
Index: setup.py
===================================================================
--- setup.py    (revision 4791)
+++ setup.py    (working copy)
@@ -90,7 +90,11 @@

extensions.append(Extension("matplotlib.toolkits.basemap._geod",deps+['src/_geod.c'],include_dirs 
= ['src'],))
 # for some reason, pickling won't work if this extension is installed
 # as "matplotlib.toolkits.basemap._geos"
-extensions.append(Extension("_geos",['src/_geos.c'],library_dirs=geos_library_dirs,include_dirs=geos_include_dirs,libraries=['geos_c','geos'])) 

+extensions.append(Extension("_geos",['src/_geos.c'],
+                            library_dirs=geos_library_dirs,
+                            runtime_library_dirs=geos_library_dirs,
+                            include_dirs=geos_include_dirs,
+                            libraries=['geos_c','geos']))

then rebuild.  As Eric Firing pointed out to me, adding 
runtime_library_dirs negates the need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH manually.  
This is already done in svn, and so 0.9.9 will not require manually 
setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

HTH,

-Jeff

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Hi Johann,

I believe the scipy optimization package gives a variety of  
optimization algorithms but you would have to implement your own  
codes to fix/thaw parameters. That being said, there is a lot there  
and I haven't dug into all of it into detail. I would suggest posting  
a message to the scipy mailing list after the holidays and you may  
get a better response.

Cheers,
Jessica

On Dec 26, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Johann Cohen-Tanugi wrote:

> hi jessica, thanks.... So scipy.optmizer as it stands cannot do  
> that? I gues I should move the issue to the scipy list then. Yes  
> there is mpfit, there is also pyminuit in google.code that is  
> wrapper of the high energy physics standard package MINUIT, etc....  
> but I would think that fitting data, with fixed/thawed parameters,  
> is a basic feature of a scientific package. As there seems to be a  
> snergy between matplotlib and scipy, I would expect the latter to  
> take care of optimization....
> thanks for the replies,
> Johann
>
> Jessica Lu wrote:
>> Hi Johann,
>>
>> I would recommend using the python mpfit module:
>>
>> http://cars9.uchicago.edu/software/python/mpfit.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jessica
>>
>> On Dec 22, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Johann Cohen-Tanugi wrote:
>>
>>> hi jessica,
>>> This FittingData tutorial is very nice. Could you illustrate how to
>>> fix/thaw parameters?
>>> I did not find any such attribute and when I try some kludges  
>>> they fail
>>> with a msg saying
>>> <type 'exceptions.ValueError'>: shape mismatch: objects cannot be
>>> broadcast to a single shape
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Johann
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Hi all,

Just updated basemap from 0.9.4 to 0.9.8 on Mandriva Linux 2008.  I also
installed basemap-data-fullres-0.9.7.  I've noticed there's a couple of
recent posts about problems (on Macs) with 0.9.8, the solution being to
install setuptools until 0.9.9 comes along; the problem I have is similar to
the posts but not the same, so I'd like to check here before proceeding with
setuptools.

I installed the included geos-2.2.3, then basemap-0.9.8, then
basemap-data-fullres-0.9.7.  However when I now import basemap I get:

In [1]: from matplotlib.toolkits.basemap import Basemap
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
<type 'exceptions.ImportError'>           Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/emason/python/tools/<ipython console> in <module>()

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/toolkits/basemap/__init__.py in
<module>()
----> 1 from basemap import __doc__, __version__
      2 from basemap import *

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/toolkits/basemap/basemap.py in
<module>()
     29 from matplotlib.cbook import is_scalar, dedent
     30 from shapelib import ShapeFile
---> 31 import _geos, pupynere
     32
     33 # basemap data files now installed in
lib/matplotlib/toolkits/basemap/data

<type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: libgeos_c.so.1: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory

Yet the file, in fact a link, libgeos_c.so.1, does exist at the location
(/usr/local/lib) where it is supposed to be:

[root@msasa lib]# ll
total 44230
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28107924 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   581806 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos_c.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      830 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos_c.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       18 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos_c.so ->
libgeos_c.so.1.1.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       18 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos_c.so.1 ->
libgeos_c.so.1.1.1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   452162 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos_c.so.1.1.1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root      790 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos.la*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       16 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos.so ->
libgeos.so.2.2.3*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       16 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos.so.2 ->
libgeos.so.2.2.3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13443604 2007-12-28 16:31 libgeos.so.2.2.3*

I'd appreciate any help with this.

Thanks, Evan