Working with Matplotlib on OSX

On OSX, two different types of Python builds exist: a regular build and a

framework build. In order to interact correctly with OSX through the native

GUI frameworks, you need a framework build of Python. At the time of writing

The default python provided in (Ana)conda is not a framework build. However,

a framework build can easily be installed, both in the main environment and

in conda envs: install python.app (``conda install python.app``) and use