numpy traceback during easy_install on Debian Lenny

[mpenning]

I'm not sure whether this is due to a problem with my local version of numpy or something else (in perhaps pandas?)... I did not see this previously (same numpy install and other dependencies) when I installed from Github trunk (sometime around November 15, 2010)...

[mpenning@Bucksnort ~]$ uname -a
Linux Bucksnort 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Sep 16 19:35:51 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
[mpenning@Bucksnort ~]$ cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 \n \l

[mpenning@Bucksnort ~]$ sudo easy_install -U pandas
[sudo] password for mpenning: 
Searching for pandas
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pandas/
Reading http://pandas.sourceforge.net
Best match: pandas 0.3.0.beta
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pandas/pandas-0.3.0.beta.tar.gz#md5=18a39d6aa5df2f3515bada968554f049
Processing pandas-0.3.0.beta.tar.gz
Running pandas-0.3.0.beta/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-24C3ig/pandas-0.3.0.beta/egg-dist-tmp-Lc7eTD
warning: no files found matching 'LICENSE.txt'
warning: no files found matching 'README.txt'
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/core/include/numpy/__ufunc_api.h:197:  warning: ?_import_umath? defined but not used
pandas/lib/src/tseries.c:1535: warning: ?__pyx_f_7tseries_get_int16_ptr? defined but not used
pandas/lib/src/tseries.c:1572: warning: ?__pyx_f_7tseries_get_int32_ptr? defined but not used
pandas/lib/src/tseries.c:1609: warning: ?__pyx_f_7tseries_get_int64_ptr? defined but not used
pandas/lib/src/tseries.c:1646: warning: ?__pyx_f_7tseries_get_double_ptr? defined but not used
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
Adding pandas 0.3.0.beta to easy-install.pth file

Installed /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pandas-0.3.0.beta-py2.5-linux-i686.egg
Processing dependencies for pandas
Finished processing dependencies for pandas
Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
    func(*targs, **kargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 251, in clean_up_temporary_directory
    from numpy.distutils import log
SystemError: Parent module 'numpy.distutils' not loaded
Error in sys.exitfunc:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
    func(*targs, **kargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 251, in clean_up_temporary_directory
    from numpy.distutils import log
SystemError: Parent module 'numpy.distutils' not loaded
[mpenning@Bucksnort ~]$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 24 2010, 14:53:14) 
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pandas
>>> quit()
[mpenning@Bucksnort ~]$

[wesm]

Hm, that's very odd. What version of NumPy? Have you tried installing the latest github HEAD to see if the same thing happens?

[wesm]

I'm able to reproduce this error on my machine as well. But pandas gets successfully installed, at least. I think it's a numpy issue-- when you have a chance could you let me know what version of NumPy this is on? I'm having the problem on 1.4.0 (what's included with EPD 6.3-2)

[mpenning]

Apologies for the delay Wes... I'm traveling for the holidays... I got this with Numpy 1.5.1, built from source.

[wesm]

Going to close the issue-- I'll chalk it up to a minor bug in numpy disutils-- not impeding your use of this library at least :)