Re: [Matplotlib-users] Update to Matplotlib and Numpy producing error

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Les Schaffer <sch...@op...> wrote:

> there are two files there: matplotlibrc and matplotlib.conf. is there a
> selection principle for choosing one or the other?

matplotlib.conf is used at build time, so you can ignore it with the
binary installer.

> i moved matplotlibrc to the indicated folder, set backed to WXAgg and some

By the way, on windows you can edit the rc file in place (ie leave it
in mpl-data).  I need to update the instructions in that file -- they
are out of date.

> of the examples run. but i am getting failures finding pylab when i run the
> pylab examples:

> $ python geo_demo.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "geo_demo.py", line 4, in <module>
>   from pylab import *
> ImportError: No module named pylab
>
> am not sure why the interpreter isnt finding pylab module even tho, for
> example,  examples/{api, animation} runs, with a few exceptions.


This is weird: it is working on my end once I update my "backend"
setting to "TkAgg".  After running the 0.98 installer do you have
pylab.py in site-packages?  Make sure you remove all matplotlib traces
from site-packages before installing.

JDH