François,

On 10/17/2010 04:39:12 PM, François Bissey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think I found the root cause of the problem. sympy's setup.py
> has the following line:
> 
> import sympy
> 
> it is the line triggering everything. I don't know if it calls the already
> installed system sympy or the build copy (but I could find out).
> The matter is it is reproducible by just opening a python2.6 shell
> and typing "import sympy" and you will get the same message.
> Try "import mpmath" and you will get the exact same error. This is
> because the problem comes from mpmath and in the case of sympy
> the copy of mpmath that is shipped with it.
> 

Here I get the

KeyError: 'DOT_SAGE'

when I import sympy from a python shell on a machine where sage-4.6.alpha3 is  
installed but not from one where sage-4.5.3 is installed. However,

installs of 4.6.alpha3 and 4.5.3 both exhibit the error when

ebuild sympy-0.6.6.build compile

is issued.

Steve