I wrote a script using Spyder IDE with mpl_toolkits basemap to plot a GPS track as arrows for direction colored by speed. Everything worked fine until I upgraded pandas to 0.13.
For whatever reason, Basemap.quiver doesn't like taking Pandas DataFrame columns after upgrading.
I changed: gMap.quiver(AllPoints['lon'],AllPoints['lat']....)
to: gMap.quiver(AllPoints['lon'].values,AllPoints['lat'].values....)
and it works fine now.