Michael,
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my question. You are the second person to suggest completely removing the old libraries and re-installing, which in fact was the needed solution to the problem. As for your suggestion to use fink, it is something that I have been avoiding as it doesn't always seem to play well with standard installations. I was very tempted to use fink in order to get a working matplotlib, as installing freetype2, libpng and zlib from src seemed to be a rather daunting task. Fortunately, the i-Installer (http://ii2.sourceforge.net/) distribution application for TeX on OS X is a viable alternative for installing freetype2, libpng and zlib.
Larry
On Jan 5, 2005, at 2:27 AM, Michael Twomey wrote:
Hi,
I'm guessing that you've wound up with a mix of a newer matplotlib py files and older matplotlib .so extensions, since polar stuff is a relatively new part of matplotlib AFAIK. Try completely removing /Library/Python/matplotlib/ and re-installing.
As an alternative to installing it yourself, you can use the fink version (http://fink.sourceforge.net/) which is kept up to date. After installing fink just do "fink install matplotlib-py23" and use /sw/bin/python2.3 to run matplotlib stuff. I prefer using the fink version of python for this kind of stuff, it's easier to manage.
Michael
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:20:26 -0800, Larry Meyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Has anyone had problems with installing and using matplotlib under OS X?
I've tried installing the last couple of versions and while installation goes smoothly it crashes when I try to import from pylab, as shown below
from pylab import *Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ python2.3/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in ? from matplotlib.pylab import * File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 194, in ? from axes import Axes, PolarAxes File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 16, in ? from artist import Artist File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line 3, in ? from transforms import identity_transform File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/transforms.py", line 189, in ? from _transforms import IDENTITY, LOG10, POLAR, Func, FuncXY ImportError: cannot import name POLAR
I running python 2.3 on OS X 10.3.7 with Numeric 23.6 installed. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Larry
Larry Meyn Aerospace Operations Modeling Office NASA Ames Research Center
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