Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to start when you don't know what to do

2013-01-15 Thread Andrew Smart
Do you happen to have a really good programmer nearby? I usually do a ton of dumb trial and error for a week, banging my head against the wall, until my super good programmer colleague comes over and goes goddammit what are you trying to do?, then in like 2 minutes he shows me where I went wrong.

[Matplotlib-users] RuntimeError: Could not open facefile

2012-03-23 Thread Andrew Smart
Hi, I'm running into this RuntimeError: Could not open facefile c:\Python32\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl-data\fonts\ttf\Vera.ttf; Cannot_Open_Resource when I'm trying to save out a series of *.png files in a loop. It crashes on this error after many passes through the loop and successful files

Re: [Matplotlib-users] RuntimeError: Could not open facefile

2012-03-23 Thread Andrew Smart
/4cb2aaa87b0aa9efe7178d7510d3d091ef5206df I think we need a Windows user/developer/expert to get to the bottom of why file handles are not being freed to the OS. Mike On 03/23/2012 04:35 PM, Andrew Smart wrote: Hi, I'm running into this RuntimeError: Could not open facefile c:\Python32\lib\site