I’ve been invariably unsuccessful in trying to make PyPlot work with any Python 3.5 version that compiles Numpy against the (multicore) Intel MKL library (I have tried it with two versions: Intelpython35 from Intel Corp, and stock Python 3.5.2 with conda pkg manager installed – this automatically installs a MKL compatible numpy version). In the end success was only met with stock Python and Numpy compiled against openblas. Is my experience commonplace?
Yes, if you are using a Julia version compiled against MKL too…it’s often a problem if you are trying to link two pieces of software that link against slight different versions of a library. See Pyplot segfaults and tries to access MKL libraries · Issue #165 · JuliaPy/PyPlot.jl · GitHub