Re: [matplotlib-devel] Refactoring the axes module

[Nathaniel S. <nj...@po...>]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Damon McDougall
<dam...@gm...> wrote:
> To reiterate, remember that you'll need to nuke your previous local install.  Installing over an existing mpl distribution will cause problems.  This is because `python setup.py install` will not remove the old axes.py for you.

NB that this is in general a good reason to make a habit of using 'pip
install .' instead of 'python setup.py install'. pip *will* nuke old
versions for you, and thus gives you a better chance of importing the
code that was actually shipped.

-n