cannot load PyPlot with Enthought/Canopy python installation

[xiaoweiz]

Environment: OSX 10.8.5, Canopy python 2.7.6 + matplotlib 1.3.1

matplotlib works in python and Pkg.add("PyPlot") passes with no warnings/errors. However, using PyPlot yields the following error

ERROR: PyError (PyImport_ImportModule) <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>
ImportError('cannot import name scimath',)
  File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/Library/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-    packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 156, in <module>
    from matplotlib.cbook import is_string_like
  File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/Library/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-    packages/matplotlib/cbook.py", line 28, in <module>
    import numpy as np
  File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/Library/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-    packages/numpy/__init__.py", line 168, in <module>
    from . import add_newdocs
  File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/Library/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-    packages/numpy/add_newdocs.py", line 13, in <module>
    from numpy.lib import add_newdoc
  File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/Library/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-    packages/numpy/lib/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    from . import scimath as emath

 in pyerr_check at /Users/zhangxiaowei/.julia/v0.3/PyCall/src/exception.jl:58
 in pyimport at /Users/zhangxiaowei/.julia/v0.3/PyCall/src/PyCall.jl:85
 in reload_path at loading.jl:152
 in _require at loading.jl:67
 in require at loading.jl:51
while loading /Users/zhangxiaowei/.julia/v0.3/PyPlot/src/PyPlot.jl, in expression starting     on line 32

[stevengj]

This is because PyCall does not yet work with Canopy (JuliaPy/PyCall.jl#42).

(My guess is that there is some path environment variable that I need to set for Canopy to work, but I haven't figured out what it is.)

In the meantime, I would recommend Anaconda.