Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting style

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 2015/03/09 8:14 PM, Marin GILLES wrote:
> Hi,
> As suggested in PR 2702
> <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/2702>, I have been trying
> to tell |scatter| to |get_current_color_cycle| for the facecolor. I
> guess I can use |axes.get_color()|to get the current color in the color
> cycle.
> However, I was not able to try this, as when I try to import pyplot I
> get an |ImportError: No module named _path|. It seems to be library
> related, but I’m not quite sure how I can solve this…

It sounds like your installation is broken; _path is an extension module 
compiled from C++, and central to matplotlib's functionality.

In what environment are you working?  Did this failure arise after you 
modified code and then executed "python setup.py install" or something 
of that sort?

Eric