Installing matplotlib under Windows

Question

I'm trying to install matplotlib under Windows Vista. Both python itself and numpy are working for me.

I installed matplotlib via the executable basemap-1.0.2.win32-py2.7 and followed the official instructions. But running from matplotlib import * gives me the following error:

No module named matplotlib

Any ideas how to get matplotlib working?

Answer 1

you can install by pip install matplotlib

Make sure that you already installed setuptools, numpy, python-dateutil, pytz, pyparsing, and cycler before that.

Answer 2

basemap is not the installer for matplotlib.
basemap is a library of the matplotlib toolkit for plotting 2D data on maps, you need to indepently install matplotlib to use it.

You can get matplotlib from here