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not able to draw matplotlib graph

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re: http://newcoder.io/Part-2-Graph Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:53:58) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2 OS: Ubuntu 12.10 Packages in virtualenv: pip freeze argparse==1.2.1 ipython==0.13.1 matplotlib==1.2.0 numpy==1.7.0 wsgiref==0.1.2 works w/o virtualenv activated...

# Width of each bar width = 0.5 # Assign data to a bar plot plt.bar(xlocations, counter.values(), width=width)

matplotlib on Ubuntu needs some dependencies before it can install w/i virtualenv

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While in the virtualenv, `sudo apt-get build-dep python-matplotlib` followed by `pip install matplotlib` worked, not just `pip install matplotlib`. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9829175/pip-install-matplotlib-error-with-virtualenv

Fix virtualenvwrapper paths for other versions of Python

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Virtualenvwrapper is installed elsewhere when having at least more than one Python version installed (at least on Mac OS X)! so need to source elsewhere.

- why GCC compiler - why do we need a C compiler at all - why Clang versus xcode - why mingw versus visual studio

Suggest some text editors/Vim in Setup

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Got to code somewhere...

something simple, with key resources like SO etc

Add troubleshooting for OS X Lion with installing matplotlib

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This may help a lot of folks: http://superuser.com/questions/242190/how-to-install-matplotlib-on-os-x/267204#267204

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