In article <CAL2Y8-RVCoy-mBWAbgGqPkazo_xW-x4q0NTyG+A5sm19sg=x...@mail.gmail.com>, C Smith <illusiontechniq...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had python 2.7.6 installed on OS X yosemite, which has always worked > fine, until I tried to install matplotlib with pip. I got the same > error below and upgraded to 2.7.9, used pip to upgrade all the > packages, but still get the same error. > > >>> import matplotlib > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", > line 180, in <module> > from matplotlib.cbook import is_string_like > File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/cbook.py", line > 33, in <module>
It looks like you have a mixture of packages, some left over from using the system Python 2.7 and, unfortunately, the system Python site-package directory is included at the sys.path search path for other Pythons, like the python.org Pythons. If you plan to just use the Python 2.7.9, go to /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages and rm everything there. Then use the 2.7.9 pip to install matplotlib. It should download and install (to /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-pack ages) the binary wheels for matplotlib and its dependencies, including numpy, and all just work. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
