Re: [Matplotlib-users] ImportError: No module named _backend_gdk

[Matthew B. <mat...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:15 PM, discolemonade <sch...@gm...> wrote:
> Thanks Paul. I'm new to all of this and the interplay between GTK, it's
> headers and matplotlib is admittedly still a bit of a mystery to me. I have
> GTK installed. I installed it after installing matplotlib because I tried to
> use TKAgg as a backend and ended up running into some problems.

As a matter of interest - what problem did you have?  How did you
install matplotlib?

>  I'm on
> MacOSX Mavericks. I've been googling around and there don't seem to be any
> direct answers for how to gett these headers installed on Mac OS. What's the
> quickest way to get these headers on my system(via homebrew?)?

Does 'brew install gtk+' work for that?

> And once I
> get them, do I have to reinstall matplotlib so that it can recognize the
> headers?

I'm afraid so.  If I were you, I'd check out the source for that, as in:

git clone git://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.git
cd matplotlib
git checkout v1.3.1
python setup.py install

Feel free to post again if that doesn't work.

Cheers,

Matthew