I installed using version 1.3.1 windows binary
"matplotlib-1.3.1.win32-py2.7.exe" from mathplotlib download. Installation
went fine, but when using the package, it says "dateutil" and "pyparsing"
are missing, which are supposed to be bundled according to the installation
instruction. Is this a bug
Thanks for pointing it to a packaging issue, as matplotlib works very well
after installing the missing packages.
I don't know really the the issue, but I hope it gets sorted out. The
earlier binaries had everything it needed on windows, so very convenient to
users. I think problems like this could