Ah, it's because I had /home/cjc1/firedrake/firedrake/firedrake in my path and not /home/cjc1/firedrake/firedrake ! --cjc ________________________________ From: firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk [firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk] on behalf of Cotter, Colin J [colin.cotter@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: 27 March 2014 19:29 To: firedrake Subject: [firedrake] environment Dear Firedrakers, I've opened a new terminal and there is something not right with my environment: cjc1@richardson:~/mercurial/vertical-tests$ python Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 68, in <module> import os File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 49, in <module> import posixpath as path File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 17, in <module> import warnings File "/usr/lib/python2.7/warnings.py", line 8, in <module> import types File "/home/cjc1/firedrake/firedrake/firedrake/types.py", line 1, in <module> import numpy as np ImportError: No module named numpy I had this yesterday on my workstation but I've forgotten how I fixed it. What do I need to do? cheers --cjc