On 7/13/07, Tom Holroyd (NIH/NIMH) [E] <to...@ku...> wrote: > import matplotlib as mpl > > and use mpl.artist, etc. I don't think this will work in this form. artist is a module, and it is not imported simply by importing matplotlib In [1]: import matplotlib as mpl In [2]: mpl.artist ------------------------------------------------------------ Traceback (most recent call last): File "<ipython console>", line 1, in ? AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'artist'