Error installing matplotlib on Windows XP computer

Question

I keep getting the following error when I attempt to install matplotlib:

raise ValueError(str(list(result.keys())))
valueError: [u' path']  

I checked out some of the answers here:

error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

Before I had installed VS2008, I tried SET VS90COMNTOOLS=%VS100COMNTOOLS% because I had VS2010 on my computer. I uninstalled it and installed VS2008. I'm running Windows XP on my computer.

Answer 1

I too had similar issue. Installing from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ has resolved the issue.