I cannot import pylab - even though matplotlib, numpy and scipy are already installed (Python)

Question

I am sorry for asking this question again, but I could not find any answer to my problem that helped me. I don't have much experience with python. I use python version 3.6.8 on Windows and I have already installed matplotlib, numpy and scipy. The 'pylab.py' file is also contained in the matplotlib folder. Edit: Using matplotlib.pyplot also doesn't work.

Edit: After some more trials I got the error that the module 'six.names" could not be found. The six package has been installed.

import pylab
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
    import pylab
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pylab'

 import matplotlib.pyplot
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#21>", line 1, in <module>
    import matplotlib.pyplot
  File "C:\...\Python36-32\lib\matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 30, in <module>
    from cycler import cycler
  File "C:\...\Python36-32\lib\cycler\cycler.py", line 48, in <module>
    from six.moves import zip, reduce
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'six.moves'

Answer 1

Per https://matplotlib.org/faq/usage_faq.html#matplotlib-pyplot-and-pylab-how-are-they-related , pylab is not recommended; you should use pyplot instead.

The correct way to import either is

import matplotlib.pyplot  # use this
import matplotlib.pylab  # only if you cannot avoid it

(pyplot and pylab are not standalone modules, but submodules of matplotlib.)