[yt-users] yt unable to find sip module

Gary Foreman gforema2 at illinois.edu
Tue Sep 3 09:43:42 PDT 2013


Hi Nathan,

Simply trying to run iyt produces the error. Here's a link with the error
output I'm receiving http://pastebin.com/j11nKn58

Thanks for your help,
Gary


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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 realized I was using an outdated version of Ubuntu.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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