Declaring brewer2mpl as an install_requires installs it as an egg, breaking it.

[anntzer]

After declaring brewer2mpl as a dependency in a setuptools setup.py, brewer2mpl is installed as an egg (zip), so importing it breaks as it cannot open _DATAFILE.

$ python -c 'import brewer2mpl'   
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2237, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2226, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1191, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1161, in _load_backward_compatible
  File "/path/to/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/brewer2mpl-1.4-py3.4.egg/brewer2mpl/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2237, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2226, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1191, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1161, in _load_backward_compatible
  File "/path/to/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/brewer2mpl-1.4-py3.4.egg/brewer2mpl/brewer2mpl.py", line 21, in <module>
NotADirectoryError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/path/to/virtualenv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/brewer2mpl-1.4-py3.4.egg/brewer2mpl/data/colorbrewer_all_schemes.json'

[jiffyclub]

I think this should be fixed by 47f57eb. I've released version 1.4.1 with the fix. Please give it a try and let me know if it works for you. Thanks for the report!

[anntzer]

It is still not possible to install brewer2mpl via install_requires, this time because the import of ez_setup fails (probably due to the value of the search path when setuptools actually runs setup.py). I guess the top of setup.py should just read

try:
    import setuptools
except ImportError:
    import ez_setup; ez_setup.use_setuptools()
    import setuptools

[jiffyclub]

Got another fix in with 58cefe3. I've updated the release files, please try again.

[anntzer]

That works now, thanks for the quick reply.

[jiffyclub]

Awesome, thanks for helping me get things fixed up!