Re: [Matplotlib-users] Cannot find test_backend_svg and others while running tests.py

2012-05-15 Thread Michael Droettboom
Are you running the tests from the source directory? That often results in failures that look like this. Mike On 05/14/2012 06:11 PM, Edward C. Jones wrote: I use up-to-date Debian testing (wheezy) with an amd64 architecture. I am trying to use matplotlib with Python 3.2, I downloaded

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Cannot find test_backend_svg and others while running tests.py

2012-05-15 Thread Edward C. Jones
Michael Droettboom said Are you running the tests from the source directory? That often results in failures that look like this. Yes, I did that. Some Googling found the correct way to do it: python3.2 import matplotlib matplotlib.test()

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Cannot find test_backend_svg and others while running tests.py

2012-05-15 Thread Michael Droettboom
On 05/15/2012 10:15 AM, Edward C. Jones wrote: Michael Droettboom said Are you running the tests from the source directory? That often results in failures that look like this. Yes, I did that. Some Googling found the correct way to do it: python3.2 import matplotlib

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Cannot find test_backend_svg and others while running tests.py

2012-05-15 Thread Edward C. Jones
I use up-to-date Debian testing (wheezy) with the amd64 architecture and Debian's python3.2. I install matplotlib from the tarball matplotlib-matplotlib-v1.1.0-684-ge87374e.tar.gz Before the current install, I had also on my system Debian's python-matplotlib and python-matplotlib-data

[Matplotlib-users] howto get minor ticks?

2012-05-15 Thread Neal Becker
In the following code snippet (not a complete example), I get the dashed lines for the minor ticks on the y (log) axis, but on the x axis, I only got the major ticks lines. How do I get minor lines to show up? (Previously, I tried without the MultipleLocator and set_minor_locator, but still

Re: [Matplotlib-users] howto get minor ticks?

2012-05-15 Thread Paul Hobson
Neal, I can't run your script as is, but something as simple as this show work: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ax.set_xscale('log') ax.xaxis.grid(True, which='major') ax.xaxis.grid(True, which='minor') plt.show() On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:18 AM,

[Matplotlib-users] Plotting issue using recent matplotlib

2012-05-15 Thread Gökhan Sever
Hello, I have encountered a weird plotting issue recently using a recent mpl clone. See the linked pdfs for better demonstration of the issue: http://atmos.uwyo.edu/~gsever/data/vocals_RF04_NU05_newmpl.pdf http://atmos.uwyo.edu/~gsever/data/vocals_RF04_NU05_oldmpl.pdf newmpl file is created

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting issue using recent matplotlib

2012-05-15 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, Gökhan Sever wrote: Hello, I have encountered a weird plotting issue recently using a recent mpl clone. See the linked pdfs for better demonstration of the issue: http://atmos.uwyo.edu/~gsever/data/vocals_RF04_NU05_newmpl.pdf