Can't locate plots package

BobLoblaw · Oct-04-2017, 04:36 PM

I am trying to run some legacy code that was created last year by a teammate, and that includes the following initial line:

        
              from plots import COLORS10, enlarge_tick_fontsize

However, when I run this line from my Spyder3 editor, the following error message results:

Error:from plots import COLORS10, enlarge_tick_fontsize
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-30-44011da13a42>", line 1, in <module>
    from plots import COLORS10, enlarge_tick_fontsize

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'plots'

If I try to do

pip install plots

in the Anaconda console, the following error message results:

Error:Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement plots (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for plots

Similarly, trying

conda install plots

Yields this error message:

Error:Fetching package metadata ......
PackageNotFoundError: Packages missing in current channels:
  - plots

Googling "Python plots package", I am not seeing any likely candidates for packages available to install. I will appreciate any suggestions about whether there is still a "plots" package that exists, and how to access it. Thank you!!

**nilamo** · Oct-04-2017, 05:01 PM

At first, I thought maybe it was a lib they wrote themselves, but then that line you shared...

        
              from plots import COLORS10, enlarge_tick_fontsize

...is a line I found verbatim on an older website. So it's definitely a distributed package of some sort, or at least it used to be. And if it used to exist in pip, then it should still be cached somewhere... but I haven't had any luck finding anything.

matplotlib is (I think) the defacto best plotting lib in python, so it might just be a convenience wrapper around that. Do you have access to the machine it used to run on? You could peek at the site-packages to see if maybe it installs itself using a different name (like how the PIL package is listed in pypi as "pillow").

It's a little late for that now, but this sort of thing is exactly what pipenv, and it's predecessor virtualenv, aimed to fix. By having all needed packages listed in a piplock file, it's easy to install them in new places (or in the future, if you don't know what packages are even needed).

BobLoblaw · Oct-04-2017, 05:27 PM

Thanks for your response, nilamo. Unfortunately, no, I don't have access to the machine the script used to run on.

So, it sounds like I might just need to rewrite parts the existing script using matplotlib instead of the plots package... Thanks for suggesting this strategy.

**nilamo** · Oct-04-2017, 05:41 PM

If it was a package, it'd be listed on pypi (the python package index): https://pypi.python.org
If it isn't there, then it might just be some random code from a github or something, in which case it becomes incredibly difficult to find.

***snippsat*** · Oct-04-2017, 06:37 PM

It's in this repo.
There is no installation,so you just call plots.py.

**nilamo** · Oct-04-2017, 06:51 PM

How in the world did you find that?

BobLoblaw · Oct-04-2017, 07:19 PM

Thanks for locating that, snippsat!

If I try to call

        
              from plots.py import COLORS10, enlarge_tick_fontsize

I get the error:

Error:File "plots.py", line 7
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Am I doing something wrong with my call? Thanks for your input.

***snippsat*** · (This post was last modified: Oct-04-2017, 07:26 PM by snippsat.)

(Oct-04-2017, 06:51 PM)nilamo Wrote: How in the world did you find that?

Just search for from plots import COLORS10

BobLoblaw Wrote:Am I doing something wrong with my call? Thanks for your input.

There is no .py when you import.
So you call it as in first post.

BobLoblaw · Oct-04-2017, 07:40 PM

Thanks for your clarification, snippsat; I should have mentioned that I already tried that:

        
              from plots import COLORS10, enlarge_tick_fontsize

It results in this error message:

Error:File "plots.py", line 7
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I'm going to continue working to resolve this error...

**nilamo** · Oct-04-2017, 07:42 PM

How are you downloading the file? There shouldn't be any html anywhere in it, and line 7 should be from matplotlib import rcParams .

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