[Matplotlib-users] python3 and matplotlib installation problem

[elmar w. <el...@ne...>]

Hi,

just installed matplotlib by doing

git clone https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib
cd matplotlib
python3 setup.py build
sudo python3 setup.py install

When I import matplotlib.pyplot I get the following error message.

Any help is wellcome
Elmar



Python 3.2.1 (default, Jul 18 2011, 16:24:40) [GCC] on linux2
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 >>> import numpy
 >>> import matplotlib
 >>> numpy.__version__
'1.6.2'
 >>> matplotlib.__version__
'1.2.x'
 >>> import matplotlib.pyplot
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<pyshell#4>", line 1, in <module>
     import matplotlib.pyplot
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", 
line 26, in <module>
     from matplotlib.figure import Figure, figaspect
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py", 
line 19, in <module>
     from .axes import Axes, SubplotBase, subplot_class_factory
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", 
line 21, in <module>
     import matplotlib.dates as mdates
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/site-packages/matplotlib/dates.py", 
line 122, in <module>
     from dateutil.rrule import rrule, MO, TU, WE, TH, FR, SA, SU, YEARLY, \
   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/site-packages/dateutil/rrule.py", line 55
     raise ValueError, "Can't create weekday with n == 0"
                     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
 >>>