[BioPython] problem installing mxTextTools

[Peter]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Nick Matzke <matzke at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Or, even better, version 2 of mxTextTools should be downloaded and used, it
> installs easily, and is supposed to work better anyway, however you can only
> find this from this page:
>
> http://biopython.org/wiki/Download#Optional_Software
> http://www.egenix.com/www2002/python/eGenix-mx-Extensions-v2.x.html/
>
> ...but not the "complete instructions" page:
> http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/install/Installation.html#htoc9
>
> (Sorry if this stuff is annoying but probably someone else naive will have
> these same problems in the future.)

As you have discovered the wiki is more up to date, but we should
update that document too.

On the wiki we do explicitly recommend mxTextTools 2.0 rather than 3.0
(there were some unicode related API changes), but in any case
mxTextTools is now optional as it is only needed for a few less used
parsers.  As the install script says, you can delay installing
mxTextTools until when using Biopython you see an import error
relating to it.

At least you've succeeded in the installation now :)

Peter