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matplotlib on OSX Mountain Lion with virtualenv

Posted on April 19, 2013 by ctb — Leave a comment

I have been struggling to get matplotlib working ever since upgrading to OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. It’s necessary for a number of different graphing/plotting things I want to do with NLTK and Pandas. It’s very frustrating. The solutions I’ve found…

using pip with homebrew python

Posted on September 19, 2012 by ctb — 2 Comments

I eventually got around to updating all my Macs to 10.7 in what ended up being a few days before 10.8 was released. (I do realize the ridiculousness of the phrase “all my Macs”.) In changing over to the then-new…

call vim from inside a python script

Posted on August 11, 2012 by ctb — Leave a comment

As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been re-working a script to add tasks to a task manager. I’m using The Hit List again, because I’ve decided to move myself away from gmail and google tasks. At any rate,…