OK. So I've managed to 'resolve' this. Though it will not work if I install 'colorbrewer' on my system.

The solution is to set a .pth file in the system site-packages folder e.g. chimera.pth with the path to Chimera site-packages (e.g. /Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages)

That did it for me.

Paul

On 16/02/2016 12:08, Paul Kibet Korir wrote:

Hi,

I want to use the chimera API and I've managed to configure a successful import of chimera except that I get that colorbrewer is not installed.

>>> import chimera
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimera/__init__.py", line 73, in <module>
    import palettes
File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimera/palettes.py", line 103, in <module>
    _initPresets()
File "/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/chimera/palettes.py", line 95, in _initPresets
    from colorbrewer import ColorBrewer
ImportError: cannot import name ColorBrewer

What is the right way to go about this? (I could create a symbolic link to my system colorbrewer, but that doesn't seem clean).

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