No module named externals

[homopolymer]

I installed matplotlib and scikit-bio via conda. An import error listed below occurred when I imported. Appreciate any help to solve it.

Python 2.7.11 |Anaconda 2.4.0 (64-bit)| (default, Dec 6 2015, 18:08:32)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-1)] on linux2
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import skbio
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/home/fzeng/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/skbio/init.py", line 14, in
import skbio.io # noqa
File "/home/fzeng/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/skbio/io/init.py", line 230, in
import_module('skbio.io.format.ordination')
File "/home/fzeng/anaconda/lib/python2.7/importlib/init.py", line 37, in import_module
import(name)
File "/home/fzeng/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/skbio/io/format/ordination.py", line 195, in
from skbio.stats.ordination import OrdinationResults
File "/home/fzeng/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/skbio/stats/ordination/init.py", line 115, in
from ._correspondence_analysis import CA
File "/home/fzeng/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/skbio/stats/ordination/_correspondence_analysis.py", line 13, in
from ._base import Ordination, OrdinationResults
File "/home/fzeng/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/skbio/stats/ordination/_base.py", line 17, in
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
File "/home/fzeng/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/init.py", line 4, in
from matplotlib.externals import six
ImportError: No module named externals

[jenshnielsen]

It sounds like you somehow have two versions of matplotlib installed on top of each other.
I suggest uninstalling matplotlib with conda and then making sure that all leftovers of matplotlib and mpl_toolkits are removed from /home/fzeng/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages and then try again.

[homopolymer]

Hi Nielsen, it works following your suggestions and thanks a lot. May I ask one more question that how do you find out there are two conflicting versions of matplotlib?

[jenshnielsen]

It was just a guess. But there were two reasons

• The six code was moved to external in 1.5 so it seems likely that some of your code is 1.5 and some of it older.
• mpl_toolkits is a namespace package to allow basemap and other external packages to be installed into it. This makes it unreliable to uninstall when changing versions. I hope to be able to change this in a future version to avoid namespace packages.

[Phlya]

I am having this problem now, and re-installing matplotlib didn't help... Anything I might be missing? Ubuntu 16.04, installation of python 3.5 parallel with 2.7 (tried reinstalling maptlotlib in both installations).

s1529682:~$ python3
Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 17 2016, 17:05:23) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import ImageGrid
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from matplotlib.externals import six
ImportError: No module named 'matplotlib.externals'

[WeatherGod]

have you tried removing the matplotlib package provided through Ubuntu? The error seems to suggest that the mpl_toolkits is getting picked up in the dist-packages folder, which seems to be old.

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On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Ilya Flyamer ***@***.***> wrote: I am having this problem now, and re-installing matplotlib didn't help... Anything I might be missing? Ubuntu 16.04, installation of python 3.5 parallel with 2.7 (tried reinstalling maptlotlib in both installations). s1529682:~$ python3 Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 17 2016, 17:05:23) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import ImageGrid Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/__init__.py", line 4, in <module> from matplotlib.externals import six ImportError: No module named 'matplotlib.externals' — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#5633 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AARy-HQn9XiONOK3QSi6bw-wURMALHJJks5r_GXOgaJpZM4Gwx3s> .

[Phlya]

Ah, good idea, thanks, this helped!