Installation Issue with matplotlib Python [duplicate]

Question

I have issue after installing the matplotlib package unable to import matplotlib.pyplot as plt. Any suggestion will be greatly appreciate.

>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>   File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.1-py2.7-macosx-10.5-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 98, in <module>     _backend_mod, new_figure_manager, draw_if_interactive, _show = pylab_setup()   File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.1-py2.7-macosx-10.5-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/__init__.py", line 28, in pylab_setup     globals(),locals(),[backend_name],0)   File "//anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.1-py2.7-macosx-10.5-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_macosx.py", line 21, in <module>     from matplotlib.backends import _macosx **RuntimeError**: Python is not installed as a framework. The Mac OS X backend will not be able to function correctly if Python is not installed as a framework. See the Python documentation for more information on installing Python as a framework on Mac OS X. Please either reinstall Python as a framework, or try one of the other backends. 

Answer 1

Problem Cause

In mac os image rendering back end of matplotlib (what-is-a-backend to render using the API of Cocoa by default). There are Qt4Agg and GTKAgg and as a back-end is not the default. Set the back end of macosx that is differ compare with other windows or linux os.

Solution

• I assume you have installed the pip matplotlib, there is a directory in your root called ~/.matplotlib.
• Create a file ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc there and add the following code: backend: TkAgg

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