On 6/8/2010 11:25 PM, David Goldsmith wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Christoph Gohlke <cgoh...@uci.edu
> <mailto:cgoh...@uci.edu>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 6/8/2010 10:39 AM, John Hunter wrote:
>
>         On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David Goldsmith
>         <d.l.goldsm...@gmail.com <mailto:d.l.goldsm...@gmail.com>>  wrote:
>
>             On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:52 AM, David
>             Goldsmith<d.l.goldsm...@gmail.com
>             <mailto:d.l.goldsm...@gmail.com>>
>             wrote:
>
>
>                 --------- Forwarded message ----------
>                 From: SourceForge.net<nore...@sourceforge.net
>                 <mailto:nore...@sourceforge.net>>
>                 Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:06 AM
>                 Subject: [ matplotlib-Bugs-2949906 ]
>                 finance.quotes_historical_yahoo
>                 raises ZeroDivisionError
>                 To: nore...@sourceforge.net <mailto:nore...@sourceforge.net>
>
>                 Bugs item #2949906, was opened at 2010-02-11 13:44
>                 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jdh2358
>                 You can respond by visiting:
>
>                 
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=560720&aid=2949906&group_id=80706
>                 
> <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=560720&aid=2949906&group_id=80706>
>
>                 Category: None
>                 Group: None
>                 Status: Closed
>                 Resolution: Duplicate
>                 Priority: 5
>                 Private: No
>                 Submitted By: David Goldsmith (olydlg)
>
>                     Assigned to: John Hunter (jdh2358)
>
>                 Summary: finance.quotes_historical_yahoo raises
>                 ZeroDivisionError
>
>                     Comment By: John Hunter (jdh2358)
>
>                 Date: 2010-06-07 08:06
>
>                 Message:
>                 This is fixed in svn 8392.  Look for it in the upcoming
>                 release.  Please
>                 test from svn if you are able
>
>                 
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/installing_faq.html#install-from-svn
>
>                 Thanks for the report,
>                 JDH
>
>                 Hi, John, etc.  I checked-out current revision (8396 I
>                 believe), tried to
>                 build using python setup.py build, got error: Unable to
>                 find vcvarsall.bat.
>                 Googled, determined that it was something I'm supposed
>                 to get w/ a VC
>                 runtime, so grabbed the most recent version (VC2010 or
>                 some such),
>                 installed, determined that I now have a vcvarsall.bat
>                 and added it's
>                 location to my path, but am still getting the error.
>                   Any ideas?
>                 Windows 7 home prem. 64 bit.  Python 2.6.  Thanks!
>
>                 DG
>
>
>             Oh, and the error happens after building
>             'matplotlib.ft2font' extension.
>             Thanks again,
>
>
>         Perhaps Christoph, who builds the win32 binaries, can let you know
>         what he does.  It's never as simple a python setup.py install,
>         though.
>           You may want to look in the release/win32 directory at the
>         README.txt
>         and Makefile.
>
>
>     You need Visual Studio 2008 (MSVC9) to compile extensions for Python
>      >=2.6 on Windows. "python setup.py build" works once you have built
>     the prerequisites. See
>     <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html>.  I link
>     against the static libraries of libpng, zlib, and freetype,
>
>
> I don't already have those - where do I get them, please?
>

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/
http://www.zlib.net/

It is best to build those libraries yourself, with exactly the same 
compiler and runtime that was used to build Python. Anything else is 
prone to crash.

--
Christoph

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