OK, I spoke a little too soon last time. I reinstalled it tonight and looked a
little closer. Essentially all of the regular files under
.../site-packages/matplotlib/... and its subdirectories have permissions
similar to
-rw--w
not just the mpl-data subdir, and I guess they should be someth
I had this same problem. Installed
matplotlib-1.0.0-python.org-py2.6-macosx10.4.dmg on 15 Sept 2010
from matplotlib.sourceforge.net on OSX 10.6.1 and python 2.6 from python.org,
and got same error when trying to plot(something). It turns out that all the
image files (for buttons on the plot
