Errors in installation of matplotlib and pandas on Macbook

[Madhavan Bomidi]

Hello ChrisA,

Thanks for your suggestion. I have typed the following on Terminal:

$ locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL="C"

How should I modify the profile/configuration of locale permanently? Is it possible to do this on terminal other than using 'export' command always and including the commands in .bash_profile?

How does this locale configuration affect other processes or software on the Macbook?

I also get another problem with selfupdate of Mac port. Below is the error message. Is this a problem of configuration in the locale?

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$ port -v selfupdate
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Operation timed out (60)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-47/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9]
Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base.tar /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
Exit code: 10
Error: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
    http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
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Look forward to your response,

Thanks and regards,
Madhavan