Chapter 1. Preparing Your Working Environment

In this chapter, you will cover the following recipes:

  • Installing matplotlib, NumPy, and SciPy
  • Installing virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper
  • Installing matplotlib on Mac OS X
  • Installing matplotlib on Windows
  • Installing Python Imaging Library (PIL) for image processing
  • Installing a requests module
  • Customizing matplotlib's parameters in code
  • Customizing matplotlib's parameters per project