I mainly use virtualenv and would recommend that to people until they have this problem trying to use matplotlib on osx: https://matplotlib.org/3.1.0/faq/osx_fr

I mainly use virtualenv and would recommend that to people until they have this problem trying to use matplotlib on osx: https://matplotlib.org/3.1.0/faq/osx_framework.html https://matplotlib.org/3.1.0/faq/osx_framework.html osx includes a "non-framework" build of python making it hard to use matplotlib Actually just now finding out about "venv" in the standard library introduced in python 3.3