[yt-users] yt unable to find sip module

Nathan Goldbaum nathan12343 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 3 09:25:35 PDT 2013


Hi Gary,

I don't think I've seen this before.

Can you paste the a small script that triggers this, along with the full
traceback you get when the script errors out?

Cheers

Nathan

On Monday, September 2, 2013, Gary Foreman wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Suddenly my yt distribution seems to be broken because it cannot find the
> module sip. Sip appears to be a python/C interface that is called by
> matplotlib.pyplot. I have tried a few things to resolve the issue, none of
> which have worked. I've tried: yt update --all, pip install sip, and
> apt-get install yt using the repository mentioned on the Get YT page. pip
> install and apt-get install fail for separate reasons, which I can explain
> in a future email if necessary.
>
> Since first encountering this problem, I have updated my OS because I
> realized I was using an outdated version of Ubuntu. I am now running Ubuntu
> 12.4 LTS. The OS update did not resolve the issue.
>
> It seems worth mentioning that the default system python distribution is
> working fine and I am able to import pyplot as well as sip without a
> problem. During a quick search of the yt distribution, I did not find the
> same sip related files that I have in my system's python distribution.
>
> Also, as of Friday, things are working fine with the yt distribution I
> have on my Mac laptop.
>
> Thanks very much in advance for your help. Please let me know if you would
> like me to post some of the error messages I have received from the few
> solutions that I've tried.
>
> Gary
>
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