I get the following error when I import pylab:
Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 11 2012, 20:14:37)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-418.0.60)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pylab
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/pylab.py", line 1, in <module>
from matplotlib.pylab import *
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 225, in <module>
import matplotlib.finance
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/finance.py", line 23, in <module>
from matplotlib.collections import LineCollection, PolyCollection
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/collections.py", line 23, in <module>
import matplotlib.backend_bases as backend_bases
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 50, in <module>
import matplotlib.textpath as textpath
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/textpath.py", line 11, in <module>
import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 1297
_fc_match_regex = re.compile(rb'\sfile:\s+"([^"]*)"')
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Installed dependancies using homebrew
brew install freetype
brew install libpng
Installed matplotlib and numpy by cloning the github repo and doing:
sudo python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
Any help in resolving this issues is greatly appreciated.
There is a syntax error in that file. I guess you're using the development sources? That rb shouldn't be there before the regular expression (it should be r in Python 2.x, maybe b in Python 3.x).
UPDATE: Yep. Here's the faulty commit:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/commit/2415c6200ebdba75a0571d71a4569f18153fff57