matplotlib

Hi Rob,

A couple of us reported this last week on the scipy list and I think it 
should be fixed in the version which was just released by Enthought, so 
if your friend will persevere and grab the latest version, it should be 
OK - I hope to try it out today.

Gary R.

Rob Hetland wrote:
> 
> I am trying to help somebody get going on numpy/scipy/mpl.  She is 
> having trouble when starting enthon's matplotlib.  She is a PC user (I 
> am a unix/mac person), so I really don't know where to start finding the 
> problem.  Below is her note to me.  Any advice would be helpful.
> 
> 
> """
> I got the enthought python etc. distribution (dated 7/5/06) again after
> talking to you, and still get the same error with "from pylab import *"
> Unfortunately, I can't grab the text from the ipython shell window, but
> the gist is that pylab.m, tries to import Xaxis and Yaxis from axis,
> axis.py tries to get FontProperties from font_manager.py, which in turn
> looks for ft2font in matplotlib.   Which is where the error message box
> saying "entry point _ctype could not be located in the dll lib
> msvcr71.dll" gets created.  Maybe we should get another dummy tester to
> try it.  My system has several mscvr71.dll's and it's probably choosing to
> use the wrong one....
> """

I tried it out and it is fixed in the latest Enthought release 1.0.0beta4

Gary Ruben wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> A couple of us reported this last week on the scipy list and I think it 
> should be fixed in the version which was just released by Enthought, so 
> if your friend will persevere and grab the latest version, it should be 
> OK - I hope to try it out today.
> 
> Gary R.
> 
> Rob Hetland wrote:
>> I am trying to help somebody get going on numpy/scipy/mpl.  She is 
>> having trouble when starting enthon's matplotlib.  She is a PC user (I 
>> am a unix/mac person), so I really don't know where to start finding the 
>> problem.  Below is her note to me.  Any advice would be helpful.
>>
>>
>> """
>> I got the enthought python etc. distribution (dated 7/5/06) again after
>> talking to you, and still get the same error with "from pylab import *"
>> Unfortunately, I can't grab the text from the ipython shell window, but
>> the gist is that pylab.m, tries to import Xaxis and Yaxis from axis,
>> axis.py tries to get FontProperties from font_manager.py, which in turn
>> looks for ft2font in matplotlib.   Which is where the error message box
>> saying "entry point _ctype could not be located in the dll lib
>> msvcr71.dll" gets created.  Maybe we should get another dummy tester to
>> try it.  My system has several mscvr71.dll's and it's probably choosing to
>> use the wrong one....
>> """