[MMTK] MMTK 2.0 prerelease

[Konrad Hinsen]

> There a few import errors finding Scientific.Whatever modules because
> you didn't distribute blank __init__.py files in all the Scientific folders.

Strange. Here's what my tar says about it:

  tar tzf /users/ftp/pub/ScientificPython-2.0a1.tar.gz | grep __init__

  ScientificPython-2.0/Scientific/__init__.py
  ScientificPython-2.0/Scientific/Geometry/__init__.py
  ScientificPython-2.0/Scientific/Visualization/__init__.py
  ScientificPython-2.0/Scientific/Functions/__init__.py
  ScientificPython-2.0/Scientific/Statistics/__init__.py
  ScientificPython-2.0/Scientific/Physics/__init__.py
  ScientificPython-2.0/Scientific/IO/__init__.py
  ScientificPython-2.0/Scientific/TkWidgets/__init__.py

And when I unpack the file, I get all the __init__.py, which are
empty except for those in Statistics and Geometry.

Could it be that your tar program removes empty files? I could easily
add a comment to the empty files if length zero is a problem.

> Also, there is a conflict between the random.py file in the Python Lib
> directory and the Random.py in MMTK on windows.

One is "random", the other "MMTK.Random", so there should not be a
conflict. At least not from outside MMTK... I probably see where your
problem is; MMTK.Random imports random, and without case distinction
it imports Random from the package, i.e. itself. But I don't know what
to do about it; I'll have to scan the Python manuals once more to see
if there is a way to switch off the "search in package first" rule.

Konrad.
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