This doesn't "feel" like a basemap/matplotlib problem. Something seems very
wrong with your environment. You aren't having any problems with
installing/upgrading other packages the same way?
Could you try a fresh virtual environment, perhaps?
Ben Root
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Remo Goets
Dear all,
It seems that installing basemap through
pip install basemap --allow-external basemap --allow-unverified basemap
fails with Matplotlib 1.4, both on Python 2.7 and 3.4. This used to work
without problems.
I attached the Python 2.7 and 3.4 tracebacks below.
Does anybody have an idea on how