[FIXED] Why is it not OK to call Matplotlib from Sublime Text 2?

Issue

My Matplotlib was installed as part of the Spyder DMG package. Now, I am trying to write Python code with Sublime Text 2. But my code, which uses the figure() method and from pylab import * statement, cannot load Matplotlib. The error message is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/xx/Desktop/test.py", line 3, in <module>
    from pylab import *
ImportError: No module named pylab
[Finished in 1.3s with exit code 1]

Solution

(Spyder dev here) I haven't used Sublime but it seems you have to do these things:

1. Install SublimeREPL

2. Configure it to use the Python interpreter that comes with our DMG, which has matplotlib and also IPython, scikit-learn, scikit-image, scipy, sympy and pandas. It's full path can be found in:

   Spyder > Preferences > Console > Advanced Settings > Python Executable

Note: I also recommend you to install a Python scientific distribution, which comes with a much larger amount of scientific packages. My preferred one is Anaconda.

Answered By - Carlos Cordoba