Re: [Matplotlib-users] ImportError: No module named pyplot

Thank you for the information.  I figured out that using pylab works.  I
would rather use a current version.  I tried to find the version you
mentioned in a deb package for Ubuntu but it doesn't seem to exist.  Do you
know why or where can I get it?

Thank you again.
Marc




John Hunter-4 wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:38 AM, mzs <ms...@th...> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I did have an typo in when reporting the problem, it should be
>> pyplot
>> not plot.  However, the problem is with pyplot anyway.  The version of
>> matplotlib is 0.90.1 as shown here:
>>
>>  >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>  ImportError: No module named pyplot
>>  >>> import matplotlib
>>  >>> print matplotlib.__version__
>>  0.90.1
>>  >>>
> 
> In the early releases of matplotlib, the procedural plotting interface
> of matplotlib resided in "pylab", which also mixed in a lot of
> numerical routines from numpy and other places.  *After* the release
> of 0.90.1, Eric Firing reorganized the plotting functions into a
> separate module "matplotlib.pyplot" so people could access them w/o
> having to get all of the numpy functions in the same namespace.  See
> 
>  
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/usage_faq.html#matplotlib-pylab-and-pyplot-how-are-they-related
> 
> The version you are using is 2 years old, so you may want to consider
> upgrading.  But you can get the same functionality with 0.90.1 by
> simply
> 
>    >>> import pylab as plt
> 
> instead of
> 
>    >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> 
> JDH
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