Re: [Matplotlib-users] installation problems

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 06/12/2010 12:57 PM, Christopher Brewster wrote:
> On an iMac running 10.6.3, python 2.6.4 I have installed numpy and then matplotlib using 'pip'.
> The message in both cases was that the install was successful.
>
> 'import matplotlib' does not cause error messages.
> 'from pylab import randn, hist' gets a traceback with the message "ImportError: No module named ma"
>
> How do I get  matplotlib to work?

Delete your old versions, and install up-to-date versions of numpy and 
matplotlib.  I don't know anything about pip, but it found you an 
ancient version of mpl that is incompatible with your version of numpy.

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html

Eric
>
> Thank you for any help.
>
> Christopher
>
> ------
>>>> from pylab import randn, hist
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py:62: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
>    import md5, os, re, shutil, sys, warnings
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pytz/tzinfo.py:5: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
>    from sets import Set
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in<module>
>    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in<module>
>      from matplotlib.pylab import *
>    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 206, in<module>
>      from matplotlib.numerix import npyma as ma
>    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/numerix/__init__.py", line 166, in<module>
>      __import__('ma', g, l)
>    File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/numerix/ma/__init__.py", line 16, in<module>
>      from numpy.core.ma import *
> ImportError: No module named ma
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