I'm trying to install matplotlib under Windows Vista. Both python itself and numpy are working for me.
I installed matplotlib via the executable basemap-1.0.2.win32-py2.7 and followed the official instructions. But running from matplotlib import * gives me the following error:
No module named matplotlib
Any ideas how to get matplotlib working?
you can install by pip install matplotlib
Make sure that you already installed setuptools, numpy, python-dateutil, pytz, pyparsing, and cycler before that.
setuptools to cycler and then I did pip install matplotlib but I get this error Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1. Any ideas?
pip install --upgrade setuptools from a command prompt with administrator rights and after that pip install matplotlib worked fine for mebasemap is not the installer for matplotlib.
basemap is a library of the matplotlib toolkit for plotting 2D data on maps, you need to indepently install matplotlib to use it.
You can get matplotlib from here
from pylab import *
This works on a proper the default scipy/pylab/matplotlib setup. And to get you started:
> hist(randn(10000))
> show()
Matplotlib is a part of the pylab suite
If you are installing matplotlib under windows using anaconda. Here are the steps..
I am using Anaconda 1.8.7
That should do the trick. For specific versions and to install onto specific environments within annaconda you can utilise the = and -n / name option
https://conda.io/docs/commands/conda-install.html Matplotlib Installation using command prompt / Annaconda Terminal
Open Command Prompt
C:\Users\Uname>python -m pip install matplotlib
Matplotlib requires some of the following dependencies:
FreeType libpng NumPy setuptools cycler dateutil kiwisolver pyparsing
