Sorry it seems that the group as a limit to mail size so I am resending the
mail below without the attachment.
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> From: Bedartha Goswami <gosw...@pik-potsdam.de>
> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib "show()" error Mac OS X Lion
> Date: November 11, 2011 4:36:11 PM GMT+01:00
> To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> Hi,
> ---
> As a test, try to set your backend to either 'cocoaagg' or 'macosx' like so:
>
> import matplotlib as mpl
> mpl.use('cocoaagg')
> ---
>
> I tried doing the above but this required me to install something called
> PyObjC:
>>> The CococaAgg backend required PyObjC to be installed!
> (currently testing v1.3.7)
>
> when I tried to easy_install PyObjC it gave me the following error:
>
> Unknown distribution option: 'use_2to3'
> warnings.warn(msg)
> error: Could not find required distribution pyobjc-core
>
> ----
>> I suspect you are trying to install matplotlib on the 64-bit Python
> instead of the 32-bit python for which it was built
> ----
> Well, I do use the python-32 bit version for all the work and in fact, the
> bumpy and scipy have been built for the python-32 bit. and i am having
> trouble with matplotlib on this - in fact, none of the bumpy, scipy, and
> python etc modules even load on the 64-bit version.
>
> ----
> Download and unpack the matplotlib source.
> Edit setupext.py and change the entry for darwin to include those two
> directories: /usr/X11 and /usr/lib.
> ----
> I did try this way as well, but the build does not manage to detect the
> libpng15 library in the X11 directory - somehow it uses "lpng15" marker and
> does not end up finding it when it is right there under X11's nose. I am
> attaching the detailed shell text for this step with this mail.
>
> Regards,
> Bedartha
>
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