Hi Russell,
On Friday 16 November 2012 at 2:25 PM, Russell Owen wrote:
> Unfortunately pip cannot install binaries, so any user that tried to
> install matplotlib using pip would have to have a C compiler.
>
> Unfortunately many users do not have a compiler on MacOS and Windows.
This is true,
Excellent!
I notice that the PyPI page has not been updated yet for poor sods like me…
Regards,
Ludwig
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Hi André,
Have you tried to run your script from within IPython? That is, run "ipython
--pylab" in your Terminal and "%run your_script.py" inside IPython. This always
keeps the figures around for me, regardless of the presence of show().
Good luck,
Ludwig
Hi Michiel,
> OK, that is good to know.
> The Apple-supplied python is not installed as a framework; I don't know for
> the Enthought distribution.
Are you sure about this? The Python libraries reside in
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework (at least on Lion, but also on
earlier version
Hi all,
This is a topic that I have spent way too many hours on... Ever since
Mac OS 10.4 I have been fine-tuning installation instructions for
these packages, aiming for the shortest instructions installing as few
extras as possible. With Lion it is finally getting very simple :-)
First off, I a
Hi Sameer,
If you are using the default (system) Python, I found that the only extra
dependency you need to install is pkg-config. I used homebrew for this
(http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ and "brew install pkg-config").
Alternatively, you can install it directly from the source obtained at
Hi Ben and John,
> The doc page is wrong. There was suspicions of this recently with
> nextafter(), but no one knew when it was introduced in numpy. Now we know
> and I will update the page accordingly.
I ran into the same problem recently and discovered that nextafter() was
introduced in numpy
Hi Russell,
The System Python 2.7.1 on 10.7 is also 64-bit (I checked the size of
sys.maxint to confirm this). I have built matplotlib 1.1.0 on this with the
standard Lion LLVM compiler (i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2) and TkAgg works
fine. Once you have pkg-config on your system (I use homeb
Hi Bedartha and others,
I have matplotlib 1.1.0 running fine on Mac OS X Lion with TkAgg, Qt4Agg,
MacOSX and mplh5canvas ;-) backends in good working condition. My humble
opinion is that this works because I do not try to replace System Python with
my own version. Given that Lion ships with P
