On 07/19/2012 09:37 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Eric Firing <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     On 07/19/2012 09:24 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>      > Working on my refactor of axes.py, I needed to use defaultdict and
>      > possibly OrderedDict from the collections standard module.
>       Problem is
>      > that matplotlib already has a collections.py module in
>     lib/matplotlib.
>      > This file takes precedence in the import process and gets in my way.
>      > Does anybody know of any way to force the import to do what I want?
>      > This has completely stumped me.
>
>     Looking at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/ it appears that for
>     2.6 and later, using
>
>     from __future__ import absolute_import
>
>     should cause "import collections" to refer to the standard library.
>
>     Eric
>
>
> Good to know.  But aren't we supporting 2.5, or did we decide on 2.6?

 >=2.6 only from now on.  This is so that we can support 3.2+ in the 
same codebase.

Eric

>
> Ben
>


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