Re: [Matplotlib-users] exporting PYTHONPATH causes matplotlib not to load

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

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Hani Nakhoul<na...@gm...> wrote:
> I'm sorry--here's the right listing:
>
> $ ls matplotlib
> agg24      examples      KNOWN_BUGS             PKG-INFO            setup.py
> build      __init__.py   lib                    README.txt          src
> build.out  __init__.pyc  license                setup.cfg.template  TODO
> CHANGELOG  INSTALL       Makefile               setupegg.py         ttconv
> CXX        install.out   MANIFEST.in            setupext.py
> doc        INTERACTIVE   matplotlibrc.template  setupext.pyc
>

es, this is your problem.  You have the matplotlib source directory in
your HOME directory and when you run from your home directory, it is
being picked up instead of the installation directory.  I usually name
my src tree "mpl" to avoid this problem


  > cd
  > mv matplotlib mpl

JDH