import problem

[vezeli]

Hey!

Thanks for all your hard work on this open project!

I have a problem with importing proplot on my Ubuntu 18. In README you mentioned that cartopy is used for optional geographic mapping features so I am assuming cartopy is an optional dependency. However, I have a problem with import proplot and this is the error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'cartopy' also I have matplotlib and numpy installed. Is this behavior a bug or am I missing something?

Here is the results of import:

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ModuleNotFoundError                       Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-41f69010d0c1> in <module>()
----> 1 import proplot as plot

/home/vezeli/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/proplot/__init__.py in <module>()
     10 from .rcmod import *      # custom configuration implementation
     11 from .utils import *      # misc stuffimport cartopy
---> 12 from .axes import *       # everything, axes definitions
     13 from .subplots import *
     14 from .gridspec import *

/home/vezeli/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/proplot/axes.py in <module>()
     81 # TODO: Import matplotlib docstring func, use it?
     82 from .rcmod import rc, _rc_names_nodots
---> 83 from . import utils, projs, colortools, fonttools, axistools
     84 from .utils import _default, _timer, _counter, ic, units
     85 from .gridspec import FlexibleGridSpec, FlexibleGridSpecFromSubplotSpec

/home/vezeli/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/proplot/projs.py in <module>()
     77 import matplotlib.path as mpath
     78 import warnings
---> 79 import cartopy
     80 from .rcmod import rc
     81 try:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'cartopy'

Since the problem is in line #79 import cartopy in projs.py I tried moving this line inside the try environment in #81 but this didn't solve my problem. Any suggestions on how to import proplot successfully?

[lukelbd]

...wow I have no idea why/when I added that line. Whoops. Does the latest commit (2ae8fe5) fix it? You should be able to update by running:

pip install git+https://github.com/lukelbd/proplot.git#egg=proplot --upgrade

[vezeli]

Patch 2ae8fe5 fixed it. I tested import proplot as plot in the regular jupyter notbook and it runs smoothly but when I tested in Ipython there is an issue with the %autosave since I have an old version of Ipython 5.5.0 installed and it does not support %autosave magic function. However, I could solve the problem by changing the nbsetup variable in .proplotrc to False.

Thanks for the help @lukelbd !