Matplotlib strives to produce publication quality 2D graphics for interactive graphing, scientific publishing, user interface development and web application servers targeting multiple user interfaces and hardcopy output formats. The 'pylab' mode of ipython uses matplotlib to emulate matlab graphics. This is the Python 3 version of matplotlib and can coexist with SBo's matplotlib package. NOTES: 1 - If you want to enable the optional subpackages tests and toolkits_tests you need to install Python 3 versions of nose and mock before matplotlib. THESE AREN'T YET AVAILABLE AS SLACKBUILDS! To enable the above mentioned subpackages you have to set the variables DISABLE_TESTS and DISABLE_TK_TESTS respectively to "no". toolkits_tests doesn't get installed, if test and/or toolkits are disabled. The installation of toolkits is done automatically. 2 - The python-dateutil and pytz dependencies must be compiled with Python 3 support.