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

just sharing my experience, I was trying to run Python code (2.7) making use of matplotlib. The code is running inside a docker container based on a Debian 10 image.

In the end I based the solution on the answers here, but there was a small caveat. I had to do the actions in the following order:

1. Install the rest of the requirements
2. Install matplotlib (no need to specify a version in my case, 2.2.5 was installed by pip)
3. Install arrow
4. Uninstall backports.functools_lru_cache
5. Install backports.functools_lru_cache version 1.2.1

The code on the dockerfile is as it follows:

RUN pip2 install -r requirements.txt
RUN pip2 install matplotlib
RUN pip2 install arrow
RUN pip2 uninstall -y backports.functools_lru_cache
RUN pip2 install backports.functools_lru_cache==1.2.1

You can find the whole project on github: https://github.com/n3if/irassh.git