ImportError: cannot import name inverse_fft

matplotlib data path /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data
$HOME=/home/nwagner
loaded rc file /home/nwagner/matplotlibrc
matplotlib version 0.87.3
verbose.level helpful
interactive is False
platform is linux2
numerix numpy 0.9.9.2603
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "cascade.py", line 3, in ?
    from pylab import plot, show, xlim, ylim, subplot, xlabel, ylabel,
title, legend,savefig,clf,scatter
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in ?
    from matplotlib.pylab import *
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line
198, in ?
    import mlab #so I can override hist, psd, etc...
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/mlab.py", line 74,
in ?
    from numerix.fft import fft, inverse_fft
ImportError: cannot import name inverse_fft

It's a bug in matplotlib: it should use ifft for numpy. We cleaned up the
namespace a while back to not have two names for things. (Admittedly, I'm not
sure why we went with the short names instead of the self-descriptive long
ones. It's in the archives somewhere.)

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On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:02:54 +0200 Nils Wagner <nwagner@...1052...> wrote:

matplotlib data path /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data
$HOME=/home/nwagner
loaded rc file /home/nwagner/matplotlibrc
matplotlib version 0.87.3
verbose.level helpful
interactive is False
platform is linux2
numerix numpy 0.9.9.2603
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "cascade.py", line 3, in ?
    from pylab import plot, show, xlim, ylim, subplot, xlabel, ylabel,
title, legend,savefig,clf,scatter
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in ?
    from matplotlib.pylab import *
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line
198, in ?
    import mlab #so I can override hist, psd, etc...
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/mlab.py", line 74,
in ?
    from numerix.fft import fft, inverse_fft
ImportError: cannot import name inverse_fft

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