I was getting the error below, but it went away after a Firedrake update. However, now my code is running and the burgers tutorial is not, returning the same error I was getting earlier.
Anna.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "burgers.py", line 36, in <module>
    from firedrake import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/firedrake/__init__.py", line 30, in <module>
    from assemble import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/firedrake/assemble.py", line 8, in <module>
    import assembly_cache
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/firedrake/assembly_cache.py", line 40, in <module>
    import function
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/firedrake/function.py", line 9, in <module>
    import assemble_expressions
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/firedrake/assemble_expressions.py", line 15, in <module>
    import functionspace
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/firedrake/functionspace.py", line 10, in <module>
    import dmplex
ImportError: dlopen(/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/firedrake/dmplex.so, 2): Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/petsc/lib/libpetsc.3.05.2.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/firedrake/dmplex.so
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