I am trying to run Matplotlib 0.87.4 on WinXP after having installed from the binaries posted on sourceforge. Unfortunately, when I try importing from pylab, I get a popup declaring:This application has failed to start because
MSVCP71.dll was not found.I usually work on Mac/Linux, so I have no
I see weird behaviour like this in Windows too. In my case, the
horizontal size of the plot window increases as the pointer is moved
inside a plot region. i.e. the aspect ratio of the window changes
erratically, I think between two sizes. Sometimes it remains at the
incorrect shape when the
More information on this bug: on my WinXP laptop, it seems to only
manifest under some circumstances. When running the script from inside
SciTE or ipython, it seems more or less repeatable (sometimes it won't
show on the first run but does from then on), but if the .py file is run
directly
