[Matplotlib-users] problem importing ft2font

[Gerry W. <ge...@uc...>]

I'm trying to run the first example in the tutorial but am running into 
an import problem:

ActivePython 2.3.2 Build 231 (ActiveState Corp.) based on
Python 2.3.2 (#1, Nov  6 2003, 09:47:20)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> from matplotlib.matlab import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "matplotlib/matlab.py", line 128, in ?
    from axes import Axes
  File "matplotlib/axes.py", line 10, in ?
    from axis import XTick, YTick, XAxis, YAxis
  File "matplotlib/axis.py", line 22, in ?
    from font_manager import FontProperties
  File "matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 38, in ?
    from matplotlib import ft2font
ImportError: cannot import name ft2font

I've built and installed the freetype2 library and the matplotlib 
installation cites:

running install_lib
copying build/lib.linux-i686-2.3/matplotlib/backends/_tkagg.so -> 
/d2/gerry/local/ActivePython-2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/backends
copying build/lib.linux-i686-2.3/matplotlib/backends/_backend_agg.so -> 
/d2/gerry/local/ActivePython-2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/backends
copying build/lib.linux-i686-2.3/matplotlib/ft2font.so -> 
/d2/gerry/local/ActivePython-2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib
copying build/lib.linux-i686-2.3/matplotlib/_image.so -> 
/d2/gerry/local/ActivePython-2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib

Not sure what's going wrong. Please respond to my email as well since 
I'm not a subscriber to the email list.

Thanks,

Gerry Wiener