When you have a problem like this with one install looking one place
and another install looking in another place making a symbolic link is
usually easier and more likely to catch everything than making a copy.
In your case you could have said:
ln -s
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/
i figured out what i did wrong and so am writing it here in case it
helps others.
the basic issue is that the .ttf font was missing in the new
matplotlib directory. to discover this, i ran python with
--verbose-debug as suggested in previous threads by others. then i
copied my version of Helvetic
Hi all,
the following code used to work for me in matplotlib-0.98 to make a
simple scatter plot and change the font from the default font to
Helvetica (I am using mac os x).
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('PDF')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import rc
rc('font',**{'family':'sa
