[Matplotlib-users] Error importing matplotlib

[Nathan]

It looks like you have two different matplotlib versions simultaneously
installed somehow, is_string_like was removed in matplotlib 3.0.

Probably the easiest way to fix this is just to blow away the virtualenv.

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 7:56 AM Martin Schimmels <martin.schimmels at web.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I wonder what's happening:
> (OS: OpenSuSE Linux Leap 15.1; Python 3.6.10; matplotlib-2.0.2-py3.6)
>
> ================
> ~> python
> Python 3.6.10 (default, Jan 16 2020, 09:12:04) [GCC] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line
> 122, in <module>
>     from matplotlib.cbook import is_string_like, mplDeprecation, dedent,
> get_label
> ImportError: cannot import name 'is_string_like'
> ================
>
> Worked 2 weeks ago. Changes on my system: installed a venv, removed it.
>
> Greetings
> Martin
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