Problem importing matplotlib in Python

[PeroK]

TL;DR Summary

Installed successfully but won't import

I'm running Python 3.8.3 on Windows 10 and was have installed matplotlib, but I can't get it to work. If I try import matplotlib then first it seems to spit out some output (always the same) from a couple of basic test programs I wrote (which is really weird), then just gets a bunch of errors:

c=300000000
Favorite number is 1729
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\pero_\OneDrive\Documents\python_work\mpl_squares.py", line 1, in <module>
import matplotlib
File "C:\Users\pero_\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 139, in <module>
from . import cbook, rcsetup
File "C:\Users\pero_\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\matplotlib\cbook\__init__.py", line 32, in <module>
import numpy as np
File "C:\Users\pero_\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\numpy\__init__.py", line 145, in <module>
from . import core
File "C:\Users\pero_\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\numpy\core\__init__.py", line 70, in <module>
from . import numerictypes as nt
File "C:\Users\pero_\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\numpy\core\numerictypes.py", line 596, in <module>
_register_types()
File "C:\Users\pero_\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\numpy\core\numerictypes.py", line 591, in _register_types
numbers.Integral.register(integer)
AttributeError: module 'numbers' has no attribute 'Integral'
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I've been down a rabbit hole with this most of the day. I've tried what I found here, messing about with different WHL files:

https://ehmatthes.github.io/pcc/chapter_15/README.html#installing-matplotlib-on-windows

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[jedishrfu]

Are you using pip or anaconda?

It looks like you have a numbers.py file somewhere in your python search path aka PYTHONPATH that is being processed over the correct one needed by numerictypes.py

 

[PeroK]

pip

 

[jedishrfu]

It may be your PYTHONPATH has more than one numbers.py file. I think that file may generated by Numpy.

https://www.programmersought.com/article/53896894544/

 

[jedishrfu]

Here’s another report on it on github

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/9872

and this one too

https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/python-matplotlib/217710/2

 

[PeroK]

How do I fix that?

 

[jedishrfu]

Look through your code to see if you have a file you named numbers.py
and change its name.

 

[PeroK]

Aha, that was the test program that was printing the speed of light and the number 1729.

It's gone and that seems to have fixed it. Thanks a million!

 

[jedishrfu]

Great, I’m glad that was easy to find. We don’t use pip for our projects instead we use anaconda which comes loaded with a lot of modules all in one tar because works better in an airgapped environment with no internet access.