title: Anaconda: Unable to import pylab
body: <p>I am unable to <code>import pylab</code> using the latest version of <a href="https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/">Anaconda</a> (Linux 64 bit). Other packages seem to work fine. (Note: I don't have <code>sudo</code> access)</p>
  
  <pre><code>In [1]: import pylab as pl
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
  &lt;ipython-input-6-2cf12a0af6ff&gt; in &lt;module&gt;()
  ----&gt; 1 import pylab as pl
  
  /home/josh/installs/conda/1.7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylab.py in &lt;module&gt;()
  ----&gt; 1 from matplotlib.pylab import *
        2 import matplotlib.pylab
        3 __doc__ = matplotlib.pylab.__doc__
  
  /home/josh/installs/conda/1.7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py in &lt;module&gt;()
      267 from numpy.linalg import *
      268 
  --&gt; 269 from matplotlib.pyplot import *
      270 
      271 # provide the recommended module abbrevs in the pylab namespace
  
  /home/josh/installs/conda/1.7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py in &lt;module&gt;()
       96 
       97 from matplotlib.backends import pylab_setup
  ---&gt; 98 _backend_mod, new_figure_manager, draw_if_interactive, _show = pylab_setup()
       99 
      100 
  
  /home/josh/installs/conda/1.7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/__init__.pyc in pylab_setup()
       23         backend_name = 'matplotlib.backends.%s'%backend_name.lower()
       24     backend_mod = __import__(backend_name,
  ---&gt; 25                              globals(),locals(),[backend_name])
       26 
       27     # Things we pull in from all backends
  
  /home/josh/installs/conda/1.7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt4agg.py in &lt;module&gt;()
       11 
       12 from backend_agg import FigureCanvasAgg
  ---&gt; 13 from backend_qt4 import QtCore, QtGui, FigureManagerQT, FigureCanvasQT,\
       14      show, draw_if_interactive, backend_version, \
       15      NavigationToolbar2QT
  
  /home/josh/installs/conda/1.7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt4.py in &lt;module&gt;()
       23     figureoptions = None
       24 
  ---&gt; 25 from qt4_compat import QtCore, QtGui, _getSaveFileName, __version__
       26 
       27 backend_version = __version__
  
  /home/josh/installs/conda/1.7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/qt4_compat.py in &lt;module&gt;()
       34 # Now perform the imports.
       35 if QT_API in (QT_API_PYQT, QT_API_PYQTv2):
  ---&gt; 36     import sip
       37     if QT_API == QT_API_PYQTv2:
       38         if QT_API_ENV == 'pyqt':
  
  ImportError: No module named sip
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I try </p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; conda install sip 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Error: No packages found matching: sip
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I also get errors with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ pip install sip                                                       1 
  Downloading/unpacking sip
    You are installing a potentially insecure and unverifiable file. Future v
  ersions of pip will default to disallowing insecure files.                
    Downloading sip-4.15.2.zip (899kB): 899kB downloaded
    Running setup.py egg_info for package sip
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "&lt;string&gt;", line 16, in &lt;module&gt;
      IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip_build_josh/
  sip/setup.py'                                                             
      Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
      Traceback (most recent call last):
  
    File "&lt;string&gt;", line 16, in &lt;module&gt;
  
  IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/pip_build_josh/sip/
  setup.py'                                                                 
  
  ----------------------------------------
  Cleaning up...
  Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip_build
  _josh/sip                                                             
  Storing complete log in /home/josh/.pip/pip.log
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any thoughts on why?</p>