matplotlib on OS X Lion or FreeBSD

Paul_Beard · December 29, 2011, 3:15pm

This is turning out to be complicated. Is there any easier way?

It may be something as simple as a damaged archive, as this doesn’t look right:

[/home/paul/src/basemap-1.0.2]:: find . -name setup.py

(paul@…3905…)-(07:02 AM / Thu Dec 29)

It makes this step difficult:

cd back to the top level basemap directory (basemap-X.Y.Z) and

run the usual ‘python setup.py install’. Check your installation

by running “from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap” at the python

prompt.

I have tried easy-install (it wasn’t). I have tried pulling from git:

python setup.py build

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “setup.py”, line 42, in

from setupext import build_agg, build_gtkagg, build_tkagg,\

File “/usr/home/paul/src/matplotlib/setupext.py”, line 184, in

basedirlist = basedir[sys.platform]

KeyError: ‘freebsd8’

I tried the packaged version on OS X Lion:

Screen Shot 2011-12-29 at 6.59.57 AM.png

Built for OS X 10.3? Really?

I’m not installing fink or macports or homebrew: if it doesn’t install from source without a duplicated file hierarchy I’m not interested.

Any hope here?

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Paul Beard

Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem?

David_Welch · January 3, 2012, 4:23pm

Paul,

Have you tried using virtualenv with Python 2.7? I’m in the same situation and I find using a virtual environment for different configuration schemes allows me to have the up-to-date Python modules without the Mac’s “semi-legacy” Python version. It’s fairly simple to set up - if you’re interested I can discuss the details with you.

Cheers,

Dave

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On 29Dec, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Paul Beard wrote: