On Sep 28, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Alexander Lehmann wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> having installed python2.7 and matplotlib-py27 on an OS X 10.6 system running 
> 64-bit fink, I just ran into an issue when trying to import the pylab module 
> from within python whereupon I get the following error message:
> 
>>>> import pylab
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "/sw64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in <module>
>    from matplotlib.pylab import *
>  File "/sw64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 259, in 
> <module>
>    from matplotlib.pyplot import *
>  File "/sw64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 95, in 
> <module>
>    new_figure_manager, draw_if_interactive, show = pylab_setup()
>  File "/sw64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/__init__.py", 
> line 25, in pylab_setup
>    globals(),locals(),[backend_name])
>  File 
> "/sw64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_macosx.py", 
> line 5, in <module>
>    import MacOS
> ImportError: No module named MacOS
> 
> I haven't messed around with my PYTHONPATH settings or stuff like that which 
> makes me think that this may be some package related issue (either python2.7 
> or matplotlib-py27).
> 
> Has someone experienced the same problems or does someone know a solid(!) 
> work-around?

There is no MacOS module on 64 bit python since it uses the Carbon framework 
which is 32 bit only.

If you want to use matplotlib, you need to use a 32 bit fink installation.

Daniel


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