ImportError: cannot import name cbook

Question

>>> import matplotlib
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File \"\", line 1, in 
  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages         


        

Answer 1

My experience is to be careful about the version of matplotlib. Today the latest version is 3.3 and has this issue. So I specify the previous version that worked for me:

pip install matplotlib==3.2.2