The value of dims is constant and not particularly large. I also checked to make sure I wasn't running out of memory. Are there other reasons for this error?
Mathew On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 15:48, Mathew Yeates <mat.yea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a line of matplotlib code > > > > -self.ax.plot(plot_data,mif) > > > > > > > > that causes the line > > > > -self.data=numpy.zeros(shape=dims) > > > > > > > > to throw a MemoryError exception. > > > > (if I comment out the first line I get no error.) > > > > This is on a windows xp machine with latest numpy and the latest > matplotlib. > > > > > > > > I have a feeling this may be a nightmare to figure out what matplotlib > > and/or numpy are doing wrong. Any ideas where I can start? > > Print out dims just before the second line to make sure that it is > reasonable. A MemoryError is raised when numpy cannot allocate enough > memory on your system. If dims is too large for some reason, you could > run into that limit. It might be because what you are trying to plot > is simply too large or there might possibly (but unlikely) be a bug > that is miscalculating dims. > > -- > Robert Kern > > "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless > enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as > though it had an underlying truth." > -- Umberto Eco > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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