title: Issues with importing pylab on Mac OS X 10.8.3
body: <p><strong>I get the following error when I import pylab:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 11 2012, 20:14:37)
  [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-418.0.60)] on darwin
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  &gt;&gt;&gt; import pylab
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/pylab.py", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
      from matplotlib.pylab import *
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 225, in &lt;module&gt;
      import matplotlib.finance
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/finance.py", line 23, in &lt;module&gt;
      from matplotlib.collections import LineCollection, PolyCollection
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/collections.py", line 23, in &lt;module&gt;
      import matplotlib.backend_bases as backend_bases
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 50, in &lt;module&gt;
      import matplotlib.textpath as textpath
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/textpath.py", line 11, in &lt;module&gt;
      import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
    File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 1297
      _fc_match_regex = re.compile(rb'\sfile:\s+"([^"]*)"')
                                                         ^
  SyntaxError: invalid syntax
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Installed dependancies using homebrew</p>
  
  <pre><code>brew install freetype
  brew install libpng
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Installed matplotlib and numpy by cloning the github repo and doing:</p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo python setup.py build
  sudo python setup.py install
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help in resolving this issues is greatly appreciated.</p>