I’m having some problems installing matplotlib (actually PyLab, see below). Googling has revealed nothing, perhaps someone might recognise these symptoms.
The technical set up: OSX 10.4, MPL 0.87.4, numeric, numarray and numpy installed.
While I’ve successfully installed and used MPL before, this is a new MacBook and so it’s the first time it’s been installed here. (Caveat: MPL may have been installed silently in an egg or a package that I used to install another package, like a SciPy distribution.) I built and installed MPL as usual. this appears to be fine and import matplotlib works ok. However the problem comes when I go to import pylab. Initially it complains that it cannot import pylab because it fails on line 74 of matplotlib/numerix/__init__.py where Matrix = matrix.
Investigation showed that just above that position, numpy was being used as the numerical library and the import was thus:
import numpy.oldnumeric as numpy
from numpy.oldnumeric import *
However, oldnumeric doesn’t define a term “matrix”. Setting MPL to use Numeric instead of Numpy, this step is passed but I run into the next error, also at the “import pylab” stage:
21:15:23: Debug: …/src/common/object.cpp(224): assert “sm_classTable->Get(m_className) == NULL” failed: class already in RTTI table - have you used IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS() twice (may be by linking some object module(s) twice)?
…/src/common/object.cpp(224): assert “sm_classTable->Get(m_className) == NULL” failed: class already in RTTI table - have you used IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS() twice (may be by linking some object module(s) twice)?
Initially I thought that this may have been the result of old settings hanging around, but I cleaned all vestigaes of MPL & PyLab from my system and got a fresh copy of the MPL source, before trying again. Same result.
Any ideas on where I should look next? Apart from a downgrade, I’m at a loss.
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