Re: [Matplotlib-users] python3 and matplotlib installation problem

[Christoph G. <cg...@uc...>]

On 7/28/2012 12:29 PM, elmar werling wrote:
> 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
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>   >>> 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
>   >>>
>
>
>

Install python-dateutil 2.1 <http://labix.org/python-dateutil/>. Do not 
use not dateutil 1.5 or the version included with matplotlib.

See also <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/983>

Christoph