xkcd() not working

[freddycct]

In ipython notebook,

i do the following
using PyPlot
xkcd()

and got this error

sf not defined
while loading In[6], in expression starting on line 1

[stevengj]

The error message was wrong, which should be fixed now. However, the real problem is that apparently your version of Matplotlib does not have the xkcd function.

[freddycct]

import matplotlib
matplotlib.version
'1.1.1'

Ok, here's the problem. I installed matplotlib 1.3.1 through homebrew on OSX. It turns out that OSX already have matplotlib 1.1.1 installed. The PyPlot Julia uses is the built-in 1.1.1 matplotlib that came with OSX.

Need to set python path to use the matplotlib 1.3.1 installed by homebrew.