Thank you for the information Paul and Felix.
I have followed your advice and installed a package manager, pip. However,
running:
sudo pip install matplotlib
did not work. Instead, the key was:
sudo pip install git+
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.git#egg=matplotlib-dev
worked well, although I'm not sure why.
For archival purposes, I have pasted my notes below for installing python /
matplotlib on mac os x.
Thanks again,
Tim
First had to install homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/), ran "brew
doctor" and fixed the appropriate warning messages. Had to add "export
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH" under ~/.bash_profile. Also had to install Xcode
from app store, and download "Developer Tools" under Settings-->Downloads.
brew doctor
brew update
Then ran "brew install python", but this didnt work. So i installed
gfortran instead:
brew install gfortran
then installed python from python.org. Because I changed the path in the
.bash_profile, this version of python was "first" when I called python.
("which python" should yield /usr/local/bin/python, and "python --version"
should give 2.7.2)
i also used homebrew to install "pip", a python module manager, and
gfortran:
brew install pip
brew install gfortran
with pip, you can install PIL, scipy, (and nump):
sudo pip install pil
sudo pip install scipy
sudo pip install numpy
(but be sure you have gfortran before these)
to get matplotlib, instead of:
sudo pip install matplotlib
do:
sudo pip install git+
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.git#egg=matplotlib-dev
this will make "ipython --pylab" work correctly
Also: I had to install the 32 bit version of python-- not sure if 64/32 bit
works... Doesn't matter which version you
download<http://www.python.org/download/>
To remove python (from here <http://docs.python.org/using/mac.html>),
1. remove /Applications/Python 2.x
2. remove the framework folder: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework
3. you can remove the symbolic link too,...
To remove matplotlib, here
<http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/troubleshooting_faq.html#locating-matplotlib-install>
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Felix Patzelt <fe...@neuro.uni-bremen.de>wrote:
> The dmg you are referring to appears to install to
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages
> (The main library, not the one for in our user directory). Most likely,
> this directory is not in pythons search path. Therefore, python can't find
> any modules installed there. To verify this, first check, whether this
> directory exists. Then start ipython and enter:
> from sys import path
> path
>
> Path is a list of all paths which are searched for installed modules. If
> my suspicion is correct, the directory where you installed matplotlib is
> not in the list. You can just add it
>
> path.append('/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages')
>
> and then import matplotlib. However, you have add it to your path again
> every time you start a new session. To add it permanently, put an otherwise
> empty text file which includes the path and place it in one of the
> directories that are already on the search path. You have add a .pth suffix
> to this text file when you save it.
>
> Best,
> Felix
>
> ps: There are many ways to install python and packages and all are more
> complicated to what you are used to from the mac - welcome to the world of
> unix / linux software... Still, I have been successful using either
> macports (slow, but reliable) as well as distribute and pip. I recommend
> macports which creates a new installation for everything you want / need in
> /opt. It can also install all of the ipython optional dependencies like the
> qtconsole and the notebook which cannot be done using pure python package
> managers.
>
> Am 17.08.2012 um 23:30 schrieb Timothy Duly:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble installing matplotlib on mac os x. I downloaded the
> dmg file
> (matplotlib-1.1.1-py2.7-python.org-macosx10.6.dmg<http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.1/matplotlib-1.1.1-py2.7-python.org-macosx10.6.dmg/download>
> ) from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.1/.
> I was able to install this package. Beforehand, I installed python from
> python.org (I read about the need to do this rather than use the shipped
> python for mac os x). So, the original python is in /usr/bin/python and
> the other, newer one, is in /usr/local/bin/python.
>
> However, after running "ipython -pylab", I get an error message:
>
> Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Aug 5 2011, 03:30:24)
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>
> IPython 0.13 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
> ? -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
> %quickref -> Quick reference.
> help -> Python's own help system.
> object? -> Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra details.
> [TerminalIPythonApp] GUI event loop or pylab initialization failed
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
> /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ipython-0.13-py2.7.egg/IPython/core/pylabtools.pyc
> in find_gui_and_backend(gui)
> 194 """
> 195
> --> 196 import matplotlib
> 197
> 198 if gui and gui != 'auto':
>
> ImportError: No module named matplotlib
>
> It seems that I don't have a module-- but I just installed it?
>
> Side note: I've read to the best of my ability this page here,
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/installing_faq.html#os-x-notes ,
> but there seems to be a disconnect on this page between the actual
> installation procedure. For example, no where on this page does it mention
> about a *.dmg file, yet the sourceforge site has the *.dmg file. And this
> help site mentions *.zip files, but this time the sourceforge download page
> does not have any *.zip files! What is going on here?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
>
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