Are you on NFS or are you using a raid? This may have to do with the time it takes to access your files, etc.
On Monday 04 April 2005 02:23 pm, syd wrote: > I don't even know where to begin. This is just bizarre. I just picked > up the Gnuplot.py module (a light interface to gnuplot commands) and > was messing around with it today. > > I've got a tiny script, but it only works from the command line about > half the time! In the python interpreter, 100%. Ipython, 100%. I'm > not kidding. > > #!/bin/env python > import Gnuplot > g = Gnuplot.Gnuplot(debug=1) > g.title('A simple example') > g('set data style linespoints') > g('set terminal png small color') > g('set output "myGraph.png"') > g.plot([[0,1.1], [1,5.8], [2,3.3], [3,100]]) > > Here's just one example -- it does not work, then it works. It seems > totally random. It will work a few times, then it won't for a few > times... > > bash-2.05b$ ./myGnu.py > gnuplot> set title "A simple example" > gnuplot> set data style linespoints > gnuplot> set terminal png small color > gnuplot> set output "myGraph.png" > gnuplot> plot '/tmp/tmp5LXAow' notitle > > gnuplot> plot '/tmp/tmp5LXAow' notitle > ^ > can't read data file "/tmp/tmp5LXAow" > line 0: util.c: No such file or directory > > bash-2.05b$ ./myGnu.py > gnuplot> set title "A simple example" > gnuplot> set data style linespoints > gnuplot> set terminal png small color > gnuplot> set output "myGraph.png" > gnuplot> plot '/tmp/tmpHMTkpL' notitle > > (and it makes the graph image just fine) > > I mean what the hell is going on? My permissions on /tmp are wide open > (drwxrwxrwt). It does the same thing when I run as root. And it > _always_ works when I use the interpreter or interactive python. > > Any clues would be greatly appreciated. I'm baffled. -- James Stroud, Ph.D. UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list