Re: [Matplotlib-users] Very odd problem of installation of matplotlib/numpy on XP

2007-03-30 Thread Giorgio Luciano
No any other with the same problem :( ? - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matlab, idle, interactivity and teaching

2007-03-30 Thread Mark Bakker
Giorgio - Thanks for starting this discussion and sorry for the late reply. Use of Python with matplotlib in the classroom and by students in general is a major objective of mine. I use IDLE with numpy, scipy, and matplotlib. The IDLE problem is really annoying though. Starting with -n is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Very odd problem of installation of matplotlib/numpy on XP

2007-03-30 Thread massimo sandal
Giorgio Luciano ha scritto: No any other with the same problem :( ? No. But I googled for you and I found this: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-November/412228.html Maybe you can get some hint. m. -- Massimo Sandal University of Bologna Department of Biochemistry

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Very odd problem of installation of matplotlib/numpy on XP

2007-03-30 Thread massimo sandal
massimo sandal ha scritto: Giorgio Luciano ha scritto: No any other with the same problem :( ? No. But I googled for you and I found this: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-November/412228.html Maybe you can get some hint. Oh, ok, checked better your email and that email

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matlab, idle, interactivity and teaching

2007-03-30 Thread Lou Pecora
Have you looked at iPython? I think it's a great way to go. Check it out. --- Mark Bakker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgio - Thanks for starting this discussion and sorry for the late reply. Use of Python with matplotlib in the classroom and by students in general is a major objective

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matlab, idle, interactivity and teaching

2007-03-30 Thread Mark Bakker
I always thought ipython didn't come with a good editor. Am I mistaken? Mark On 3/30/07, Lou Pecora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you looked at iPython? I think it's a great way to go. Check it out. --- Mark Bakker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgio - Thanks for starting this discussion

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matlab, idle, interactivity and teaching

2007-03-30 Thread Lou Pecora
--- Mark Bakker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always thought ipython didn't come with a good editor. Am I mistaken? Mark Oh, I see. You probably want an development envirnoment. Sorry. IPython is great for interactively running code, but not too great for any editing. I do my editing in a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matlab, idle, interactivity and teaching

2007-03-30 Thread oliver . tomic
Mark, you can set ipython (in the ipythonrc.ini) to start up the editor of your choice when you type edit in the ipython-shell. Check out this video at ShowMeDo, that shows a lot of the features of ipython: http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=DownloadingIPythonForMSWindowsfromSeriesID=2

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matlab, idle, interactivity and teaching

2007-03-30 Thread George Nurser
You can run ipython _from_ emacs. Needs a bit of messing about with your .emacs, but once you've set it up, it works very well. Object introspection and the debugger are very nice; you can execute code fragments etc. Not quite a 'development environment', but a long way towards one. It explains

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matlab, idle, interactivity and teaching

2007-03-30 Thread massimo sandal
Not quite a 'development environment', but a long way towards one. I always thought that the focus of matplotlib towards matlab-like interactivity is fundamentally flawed. Matlab-like interactivity is damn good when it is needed, but for that purpose in the free world there are already the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matlab, idle, interactivity and teaching

2007-03-30 Thread Fernando Perez
On 3/30/07, Mark Bakker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always thought ipython didn't come with a good editor. Am I mistaken? You are not mistaken, and this is by design: ipython is not an IDE, it's the interactive component of a python workflow. As others have mentioned (thanks to all, btw), it

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matlab, idle, interactivity and teaching

2007-03-30 Thread Tim Hirzel
As for a good IDE. I really like eclipse with pydev. For easy student/beginner setup, easyclipse has a nice python eclipse distribution http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/distributions/index.html I think I've tried near every python IDE setup out there over the last couple years, and this one

[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib and py2exe

2007-03-30 Thread Archana Ganesan
Hi all, I have a python application that uses matplotlib. I want to compile it into an executable. I tried using py2exe but it returned some error w.rtmatplotlib. Cpuld anyone please help me with this? Is there some other way to get it done? Thanks, Archana