mac下得matplotlib配置

首先需要安装pip，sudo easy_install pip

numpy安装

pip install -U numpy 有没有-U视情况而定

matplotlib安装

pip install matplotlib，如果没有权限，需要在前面加上sudo。有时候会提示一个-H有关的东西，这时候可以尝试sudo -H pip install matplotlib安装。安装完成后进入python，键入import matplotlib即可开始matplotlib的使用。我在键入后出现了如下问题：

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1131, in <module>
    rcParams = rc_params()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 975, in rc_params
    return rc_params_from_file(fname, fail_on_error)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1100, in rc_params_from_file
    config_from_file = _rc_params_in_file(fname, fail_on_error)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1018, in _rc_params_in_file
    with _open_file_or_url(fname) as fd:
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py", line 17, in __enter__
    return self.gen.next()
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1000, in _open_file_or_url
    encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 543, in getdefaultlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 475, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

具体解决办法参见stackoverflow

先Ctrl+D退出python，然后键入locale，此时我的电脑显示：

LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

然后键入

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

此时键入locale，可以查看一下显示均变为en_US.UTF-8。这时键入import matplotlib错误消失。但是下次运行terminal还是需要重新设置。

终极办法，进入/etc/profile文件，在文件最末端加入

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

目前不知道是否会导致别的错误。