[pymvpa] issue with pymvpa tutorial on neurodebian VM

[Emanuele Olivetti]

Excellent work.

I confirm that everything works well on neurodebian VM :-)

Best,

Emanuele

On 04/06/2012 04:54 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Thanks to Tiziano's dedication to work on holidays -- there is an
> updated snapshot package of MDP available from #NeuroDebian (for a
> subset of Debian/Ubuntu releases) fixing PyMVPA import issues.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> On Thu, 05 Apr 2012, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
>
>> d'oh -- I thought that we finally uploaded mdp which fixes this issue...
>> I guess I was wrong (upload is coming though...)
>> meanwhile -- a configurational workaround is to disable MDP bindings
>> (they aren't used in the tutorial anyways) -- just edit your ~/.pymvpa2.cfg and
>> add
>> [externals]
>> have mdp = no
>> that should prevent it from check if MDP is available etc
>> On Thu, 05 Apr 2012, Emanuele Olivetti wrote:
>>>>   File "<string>", line 1, in<module>
>>>>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mdp/__init__.py", line 166, in<module>
>>>>     import nodes
>>>>   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mdp/nodes/__init__.py", line 54, in<module>
>>>>     del convolution_nodes
>>>> NameError: name 'convolution_nodes' is not defined
>>>> -----
>>>> As far as I understand, besides the warning on the scikits->sklearn renaming, there is
>>>> an issue with MDP. I am digging it but in case you already know that I am
>>>> sending this message immediately.
>
>
>>> After a little digging I found out that the package python-mdp has some other
>>> bigger issues: even "import mdp" fails. This is quite unexpected...
>>> This tiny change in MDP seems to solve the issue of my previous message though.
>>> -------------------------------------------
>>> --- __init__.py.original    2012-04-05 07:46:13.000000000 -0400
>>> +++ __init__.py    2012-04-05 07:48:40.000000000 -0400
>>> @@ -51,17 +51,17 @@
>>>   if numx_description == 'scipy':
>>>       from convolution_nodes import Convolution2DNode
>>>       __all__ += ['Convolution2DNode']
>>> -    del convolution_nodes
>>> +    # del convolution_nodes
>>>   if config.has_shogun:
>>>       from shogun_svm_classifier import ShogunSVMClassifier
>>>       __all__ += ['ShogunSVMClassifier']
>>> -    del shogun_svm_classifier
>>> +    # del shogun_svm_classifier
>>>   if config.has_libsvm:
>>>       from libsvm_classifier import LibSVMClassifier
>>>       __all__ += ['LibSVMClassifier']
>>> -    del libsvm_classifier
>>> +    # del libsvm_classifier
>>>   if config.has_scikits:
>>>       import scikits_nodes
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> Best,
>>> Emanuele
>
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