I'm trying to run the first example in the tutorial but am
> running into an import problem:
> cannot import name ft2font
I haven't seen this one before. Are you using matplotlib-0.53
(released today?)
My first guess is you have two python's installed and are installing
to one and running the other. I installed and tested the lastest
matplotlib on a redhat 7.1 machine so I don't see any problems with
your OS.
After upgrading to 0.53, you can make sure you are actually using it
by
mother:~/tmp/matplotlib-0.53/examples> python
Python 2.3 (#1, Aug 29 2003, 12:14:15)
[GCC 3.2.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Welcome to rlcompleter2 0.95
for nice experiences hit <tab> multiple times
>>> import matplotlib
>>> matplotlib.version
'0.53'
If this doesn't help, let me know what
> ldd /d2/gerry/local/ActivePython-2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so
reveals.
John Hunter