[Tutor] Python command calls the wrong version!

2010-09-07 Thread Quinton Goddard
Dear Python Tutors, I am new to Python, having perviously used IDL for all my scripts. I was hoping to use Python and so I have just downloaded and installed version 2.6 using the mac installer. That all went fine. I then opened up X11, all fine. Then I typed in >python and got this message

[Tutor] Bus Error with matplotlib

2010-09-17 Thread Quinton Goddard
Hi, I have been trying to install matplotlib for python on my mac which is running snow leopard. The installation appeared to go well until I tried the following > python >>> import matplotlib >>> import matplotlib.pyplot Bus error > It is very annoying, I have posted the error message below bu