On some OSX systems, pylab is failing on importing pylab because of lack of GTK. This appears to be a bug; if the system doesnt have gtk, it should simply not import that backend to begin with.
>>> from matplotlib import pylab Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.98pre-py2.5- macosx-10.5-i386.egg/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 292, in <module> from matplotlib.pyplot import * File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.98pre-py2.5- macosx-10.5-i386.egg/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 39, in <module> new_figure_manager, draw_if_interactive, show = pylab_setup() File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.98pre-py2.5- macosx-10.5-i386.egg/matplotlib/backends/__init__.py", line 24, in pylab_setup globals(),locals(),[backend_name]) File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.98pre-py2.5- macosx-10.5-i386.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtkagg.py", line 10, in <module> from matplotlib.backends.backend_gtk import gtk, FigureManagerGTK, FigureCanvasGTK,\ File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/matplotlib-0.98pre-py2.5- macosx-10.5-i386.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk.py", line 6, in <module> import gobject ImportError: No module named gobject >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users