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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"pylab import fails for non-framework python installs on OS X","articleBody":"This was an intentional choice from [PR 1613](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1613/).  Unfortunately this has caused some downstream headaches for us (speaking on behalf of the yt project).  \n\nThe issue is that we distribute yt using a bash installer script that builds all of yt's dependencies from source.  Now that we've updated to use matplotlib 1.3.0, all pylab imports fail on OS X with a RuntimeError.\n\nThe relevant yt issue is here: https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issue/642/cannot-import-pylab-on-os-x-using\n\nWouldn't it be possible to fallback to another frontend rather than outright failing? Our suggested workaround is to use tkagg instead of macosx but that's a bit nasty since it doesn't fix the fact that pylab is broken out of the box for our OS X users.\n\nFor what it's worth, we've never heard of issues with the macosx backend.  I guess it wasn't fully working on our non-framework install of python, but the failures were so subtle that no one ever noticed.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ngoldbaum","@type":"Person","name":"ngoldbaum"},"datePublished":"2013-08-30T22:36:29.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":9},"url":"https://github.com/2361/matplotlib/issues/2361"}