"KeyError: kivy.garden.matplotlib"

[Alfred Noodle]

I'm getting "KeyError: kivy.garden.matplotlib" even though I've installed it. I have more info here. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72193484/keyerror-kivy-garden-matplotlib

[Robert]

Never trust some random YouTube video, YouTube imparts confidence not competence.

The only thing you care about is the documentation and examples.

This is, I think, the cause of the confusion https://kivy.org/doc/stable/api-kivy.garden.html#update-to-garden-structure

The answer to the question here https://kivy.org/doc/stable/api-kivy.garden.html#general-usage-guidelines

is here  https://github.com/kivy-garden/garden.matplotlib

So matplotlib has bit rot, and you are on your own. (be suspicious of everything)

The easiest think to do is copy matplotlib to your app, you just need a directory (say garden_matplotlib)  with the two ,py (you will have to fixup the imports on the two .py) and import this in your app.

There may be two obsolete and redundant imports - I don't remember where.

You can debug this on your desktop and there will be no special Garden requirements for Buildozer (just  matplotlib recipe dependency which is not the matplotlib in Garden)

[Alfred Noodle]

What do you mean "two.py"? 

[Robert]

The two .py files , the answer to your same question on Discord points you to an example that does this.

[Alfred Noodle]

That's what I thought you meant, just making sure. So you're saying that within project_folder, I'll have another folder, garden_matplotlib that will have the two .py files and this github copy of matplotlib?  Would I put main.py in project folder, still? And you're thinking that maybe in the main.py application, I import the entire folder garden_matplotlib? That doesn't make sense to me because I think you can only import python modules in a .py application.  I've never imported a folder with mixed files in it. 

[Robert]

Just try a test case on the desktop, you'll figure it out.

[Alfred Noodle]

Oh that was easy. I didn't know it worked like that.  K, thanks.  So basically, programming is just like assembling modules from github? 

[Robert]

HaHa if only.