On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Matthias Wong <arkan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> It's exactly as said. I am using OS 10.6
>
> If I use ipython -pylab and later try to plot anything, the GUI for
> plotting launches and I just get a beachball.
>
> However, if I do ipython and then import plot, I can do a plot with no
> problem.
>
> I did a search but came up with nothing. I have this problem whether I use
> apple python or the python2.7 downloaded from python.org.
>
> I am new to the whole terminal/programming thing. As you can imagine,
> everything is very difficult. Any help is appreciated
>
> God bless,
> Matthias
>

Most likely, ipython is trying to import a different (broken?) version of
matplotlib than what python finds automatically.  I would try re-installing
ipython.

Ben Root
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