Merge pull request #2681 from tomspur/remove_matplotlib_dep

Don't enable pylab mode, when matplotlib is not importable

IPython/core/interactiveshell.py

@@ -2864,6 +2864,10 @@ def enable_pylab(self, gui=None, import_all=True, welcome_message=False):
         except KeyError:
             error("Backend %r not supported" % gui)
             return
+        except ImportError:
+            error("pylab mode doesn't work as matplotlib could not be found." + \
+                  "\nIs it installed on the system?")
+            return
         self.user_ns.update(ns)
         self.user_ns_hidden.update(ns)
         # Now we must activate the gui pylab wants to use, and fix %run to take

IPython/core/shellapp.py

@@ -203,6 +203,10 @@ def init_gui_pylab(self):
                     self.log.info("Enabling GUI event loop integration, "
                                   "toolkit=%s" % self.gui)
                     shell.enable_gui(self.gui)
+            except ImportError:
+                self.log.warn("pylab mode doesn't work as matplotlib could not be found." + \
+                              "\nIs it installed on the system?")
+                self.shell.showtraceback()
             except Exception:
                 self.log.warn("GUI event loop or pylab initialization failed")
                 self.shell.showtraceback()