From 1e264b61d82b009778780926ca730b5dc990a635 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:00:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] spath: Allow importing even when not compiled.

---
 scikits/image/analysis/__init__.py | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scikits/image/analysis/__init__.py b/scikits/image/analysis/__init__.py
index 65e7dc01..ab753358 100644
--- a/scikits/image/analysis/__init__.py
+++ b/scikits/image/analysis/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-from spath import shortest_path
+try:
+    from spath import shortest_path
+except ImportError:
+    print """*** The shortest path extension has not been compiled.  Run
+
+python setup.py build_ext -i
+
+in the source directory to build in-place.  Please refer to INSTALL.txt
+for further detail."""