As an addendum to what Steven said, I have found that after installing Anaconda I need to run the following command to get PyPlot to work from the REPL:
``` conda install PySide ``` Just FYI for those who need it. On Thursday, November 6, 2014 7:47:27 AM UTC-8, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thursday, November 6, 2014 4:05:58 AM UTC-5, Sheehan Olver wrote: >> >> >> Thought I'd share the list of commands that I keep around to remind >> myself how to reinstall Julia/IPython Notbook/Matplotlib in OS X: >> >> >> https://github.com/dlfivefifty/SO.jl/blob/master/Julia%20installation.txt >> > > I usually recommend that people install Anaconda (which also has the > virtue of not requiring them to install Xcode). I gave up on brew's python > a while back; I found that it breaks too easily when upgrading, and getting > PyQt installed (to have a PyPlot GUI backend) was a huge pain. >
