In article <CAMW75Yv5f=PdcZqt-ti=iee7gxgfzqp8jxh485zjohd9l63...@mail.gmail.com>, Alex Ter-Sarkissov <ater1...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi everyone, I run python 2.7.2. in Eclipse (recently upgraded from 2.6). I > have a problem with installing matplotlib (I found the version for python > 2.7. MacOs 10.3, no later versions). If I run python in terminal using arch > -i386 python, and then > > from matplotlib.pylab import * > > and similar stuff, everything works fine. If I run python in eclipse or > just without arch -i386, I can import matplotlib as > > from matplotlib import * > > but actually nothing gets imported. If I do it in the same way as above, I > get the message > > no matching architecture in universal wrapper > > which means there's conflict of versions or something like that. I tried > reinstalling the interpreter and adding matplotlib to forced built-ins, but > nothing helped. For some reason I didn't have this problem with numpy and > tkinter.
The message means almost certainly means that the Python you are using is a 64-bit/32-bit universal version. When you launch Python with -arch i386, you force the Python to run in 32-bit mode so it is compatible with the 32-bit-only version of matplotlib you've installed in it. When you launch Python by default, it is runnning in 64-bit mode so the 32-bit-only C extension modules in that version of matplotlib cannot be loaded. You might want to ask the matplotlib developers to make a 64-bit version available. In the mean time, you could try to configure Eclipse to invoke the python with `python2.7-32`, which is included with distributions like the python.org one to force Python to run in 32-bit mode on OS X. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
