I there someone on this list that can build matplotlib for the mac? I used the matplotlib package in the superpack and also tried the one on macpython to run the example below to read dates from a csv file but it didn't work. Apparently because the pytz module is not available in the matplotlib packages for the mac. I tried compiling matplotlib myself but got the following error on build: gcc: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations Vincent from pylab import figure, show, datestr2num, load dates, closes = load( 'data/msft.csv', delimiter=',', converters={0:datestr2num}, skiprows=1, usecols=(0,2), unpack=True) Date,Open,High,Low,Close,Volume,Adj. Close* 19-Sep-03,29.76,29.97,29.52,29.96,92433800,29.79 18-Sep-03,28.49,29.51,28.42,29.50,67268096,29.34 17-Sep-03,28.76,28.95,28.47,28.50,47221600,28.34 16-Sep-03,28.41,28.95,28.32,28.90,52060600,28.74 15-Sep-03,28.37,28.61,28.33,28.36,41432300,28.20 12-Sep-03,27.48,28.40,27.45,28.34,55777200,28.18 11-Sep-03,27.66,28.11,27.59,27.84,37813300,27.68 10-Sep-03,28.03,28.18,27.48,27.55,54763500,27.40