Using modules from Debian "python3-..." packages with locally compiled Python 3.3

Tue May 8 20:19:45 EDT 2012

Terry Reedy said:
 > Question 1: if you use the .pth method, do you get the same result? 
(I expect you will, but good to
 > check.)
Recompiled Pyhton 3.3 without the SITEPATH change. Same result:
 > python3.3
Python 3.3.0a3 (default, May 8 2012, 19:57:45)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import numpy
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1015, in _find_and_load
 File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 634, in load_module
 File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 294, in 
module_for_loader_wrapper
 File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 522, in _load_module
 File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/__init__.py", line 137, in 
<module>
 from . import add_newdocs
ImportError: cannot import name add_newdocs
 >>>
 > Question2: has anyone successfully run numpy with 3.3 on Debian or 
anything else? If no one here
 > answers, try Debian or numpy lists.
I don't know. But Python 3.3.0a3 has been in Debian experimental for 
only a few days.
I have a bunch of code that I want to port to Python 3. I delayed for 
years because numpy and PIL
had not been ported to Python 3. Numpy has now been converted and there 
are alternatives to PIL.
Since I want to deal with unicode only once, I would prefer to use 3.3 
but 3.2 would be OK.