title: Import error ft2font from matplotlib (python, macosx)
body: <p>I was installing matplotlib to use basemap today when I had to install a lot of stuff to make it work. After installing matplotlib and be able to import it I installed basemap but I can't import basemap because of this error:</p>
  
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        <p>from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap</p>
        
        <p>Traceback (most recent call last):
          File "", line 1, in 
          File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/<strong>init</strong>.py", line 36, in 
            from matplotlib.collections import LineCollection
          File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/collections.py", line 22, in 
            import matplotlib.backend_bases as backend_bases
          File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 38, in 
            import matplotlib.widgets as widgets
          File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/widgets.py", line 16, in 
            from lines import Line2D
          File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/lines.py", line 23, in 
            from matplotlib.font_manager import FontProperties
          File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 52, in 
            from matplotlib import ft2font
        ImportError: dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so, 2): Symbol not found: _FT_Attach_File
          Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so
          Expected in: dynamic lookup</p>
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  <p>So when I tried to import ft2font in python by:</p>
  
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        <p>from matplotlib import ft2font</p>
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  <p>I got this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  ImportError: dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so, 2): Symbol not found: _FT_Attach_File
    Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so
    Expected in: dynamic lookup
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  <p>Any idea what to do?
  I'm using Mac OSX 10.6 and python 2.7.2 installed by homebrew.</p>