Perhaps it would be nice if the error message gave what it thought the version installed was

We can improve the error message. In the meantime, can you tell me what

>>> import pyparsing
>>> pyparsing.__version__

gives on your system?

Mike, this is the same error I was having because I didn't do a git clean
-fxd. The cause of it was that the old pyparsing.pyc file was still in the
build directory and got picked up during install.

Chances are, the binaries weren't builtt from clean tarballs.

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We can improve the error message. In the meantime, can you tell me what

import pyparsing
pyparsing.version

gives on your system?

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@ibell: To confirm @WeatherGod's theory, can you look in C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib and see if there is a pyparsing.pyc file there?

Yes, but it is a compiled version of the "correct" pyparsing module as far
as I can tell. I deleted the .pyc file and when I import pyparsing again I
still get the same version.

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@ibell https://github.com/ibell: To confirm @WeatherGodhttps://github.com/WeatherGod's
theory, can you look in C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib and see
if there is a pyparsing.pyc file there?

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Just to be clear, you're looking in C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib and not C:\Python27\lib\site-packages, right? Does removing the one in C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib resolve the error?

No, that's not what I meant. The new installer would have put the bad
pyparsing file in the egg that got installed. That directory is from the
previous version of matplotlib and is never touched when importing
matplotlib after the 1.3 install.

Ben

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theory, can you look in C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib and see
if there is a pyparsing.pyc file there?

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@WeatherGod: I'm confused. Which directory is from the previous installation of matplotlib? As far as I can tell, the installer installs to C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib whether it's matplotlib 1.2.1 or 1.3.0. Whether the pyparsing.py (inside of the matplotlib directory) came from 1.2.1 or erroneously in the 1.3.0 installer, it would be there either way, and removing it should resolve the issue you describe. (The only difference is how we ultimately resolve it from our end). Am I missing something?

I just confirmed that pyparsing is not in the installer, so I suspect it was left over from a previous install.

One possible solution to this (besides recommending uninstallation first), is to put from __future__ import absolute_import at the top of matplotlib/__init__.py so that the pyparsing imported will always be the global one and not the one that used to be included with matplotlib.

I hadn't even realized that MPL provided a version of pyparsing. At the
very least the error message should be clear about which pyparsing it is
talking about. I think it would be better to just use the system version,
or try the system pyparsing, and if it isn't up to date, use the MPL one.

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I just confirmed that pyparsing is not in the installer, so I suspect it
was left over from a previous install.

One possible solution to this (besides recommending uninstallation first),
is to put from future import absolute_import at the top of
matplotlib/init.py so that the pyparsing imported will always be the
global one and not the one that used to be included with matplotlib.

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I've had this problem today as well after installing matplotlib through pip, and as far as I can tell is related to #1792 and #1794. The output from pip is

Downloading/unpacking pyparsing>=1.5.6,!=2.0.0 (from matplotlib)
  Running setup.py egg_info for package pyparsing

I notice pyparsing has recently released (two weeks ago, according to PyPI) a version 2.0.1, so, as far as I can tell, what pip is now doing is installing that rather than installing from the 1.x branch, since 2.0.1 is both greater than 1.5.6 and not equal to 2.0.0.

Which is the intention since 2.0.1 works for python 2.6 and 2.7 again see #2240

I have tested mpl 1.3.0 and python 2.7.5 with this version and apart from a lot of depresiation warnings it is all
fine. The alternative would be that pip tried to downgrade a working 2.0.1 install to 1.5.6 if you had 2.0.1 installed.

I hadn't even realized that MPL provided a version of pyparsing. At the
very least the error message should be clear about which pyparsing it is
talking about. I think it would be better to just use the system version,
or try the system pyparsing, and if it isn't up to date, use the MPL one.

matplotlib used to include pyparsing, and if I understand correctly, this failure is due to having a previous version of matplotlib installed first, and then installing 1.3.0 on top. In that situation, it is loading the too old pyparsing that matplotlib shipped with. @ibell: Can you confirm that's the case on your system so I know my theory is correct? Did removing C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib resolve the issue for you? If that's the case, I think the fix will be to use absolute imports so we can be clear that we want the system pyparsing. matplotlib no longer ships pyparsing (for a number of good reasons) so falling back to its version is no longer an option.

@ibell: ping. I'm not comfortable making any changes unless we can confirm the root cause of the problem.

Sorry for the delay - removing the matplotlib folder entirely makes the
1.3.0 installer work with a system-installed 2.0.1

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@ibell https://github.com/ibell: ping. I'm not comfortable making any
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Thats the matplotlib folder in site-packages

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Sorry for the delay - removing the matplotlib folder entirely makes the
1.3.0 installer work with a system-installed 2.0.1

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@ibell https://github.com/ibell: ping. I'm not comfortable making any
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Ok -- I've done a little more digging around. To summarize: the bug manifests itself when the user installs 1.1.1 (or earlier), and then installs 1.3.0 over top (possibly with 1.2.x in between). This is because 1.1.1 (and earlier) include a file called pyparsing.py in the matplotlib package. 1.2.0 include the files pyparsing_py2.py and pyparsing_py3.py in the matplotlib namespace. 1.3.0 includes none of the above, but does import pyparsing expecting the system one, and, in the case of old matplotlib cruft left lying around, get the by-now-too-old version of pyparsing that shipped with 1.1.1.

The obvious fix is to turn on absolute_import so that the system pyparsing will be preferred over the local one. The attached patch fixes things for me in my testing.

We'll have to advertise, for now, that installing 1.3.0 requires uninstalling earlier versions first. But once this fix gets in (for 1.3.1, which looks inevitable rather soon for a number of reasons), that will no longer be required.

hi I have got exactly the same problem and the solution is:
1 download pyparsing 1.5.6(download the zip source code not exe)
2 unzip
3 copy the pyparsing.py pyparsing.pyc and pyarsing.pyo in to C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib and overwrite the old pyparsing files
4 done!

@killmen2006: The better solution is to remove your old installation of matplotlib before reinstalling a new one, and installing pyparsing in the standard way. This will allow you to continue to upgrade matplotlib in the future without this hiccup.

Sorry about all those deprecation warnings about using '<<' operator. It turns out '<<' won't be deprecated after all, so in version 2.0.2, those warnings will all go away.