Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie question/closing a figure-window

2009-01-14 Thread John Hunter
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Hajas, Wayne wrote: > Thanks to everybody who responded to my original post. > > I think Massimo put it best: IDLE does not play well with matplotlib. I > will just have to learn how to be effective with ipython. This may be true that idle doesn't play well with

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie question/closing a figure-window

2009-01-14 Thread Hajas, Wayne
...@dfo-mpo.gc.ca (250)756-7367 -Original Message- From: Mauro Cavalcanti [mailto:mauro...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:43 PM To: Richard Johns Cc: Hajas, Wayne; matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie question/closing a figure-window

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie question/closing a figure-window

2009-01-14 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear Richard, 2009/1/14 Richard Johns : > The full edition of Python(x,y) 2.1.9 contains all of the software you > mentioned(PIL, matplotlib, IPython, Enthought Tool Suite) while any of > these missing from the basic and light editions can be added as plugins. Enthought Python includes a lot more

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie question/closing a figure-window

2009-01-13 Thread Richard Johns
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 22:43 -0200, Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: > Gentlemen, > > I would recommend, in turn, Enthought Python > (http://www.enthought.com), which also includes IPyhton, Matplotlib > and many other useful libraries (eg. PIL) not included in Python(x,y). > > Hope this helps. > > Best re

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie question/closing a figure-window

2009-01-13 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Gentlemen, I would recommend, in turn, Enthought Python (http://www.enthought.com), which also includes IPyhton, Matplotlib and many other useful libraries (eg. PIL) not included in Python(x,y). Hope this helps. Best regards, 2009/1/13 Richard Johns : > I have had similar experiences with IDLE

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie question/closing a figure-window

2009-01-13 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Gentlemen, I would recommend, in turn, Enthought Python (http://www.enthought.com), which also includes IPyhton, Matplotlib and many other useful libraries (eg. PIL) not included in Python(x,y). Hope this helps. Best regards, 2009/1/13 Richard Johns : > I have had similar experiences with IDLE

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie question/closing a figure-window

2009-01-13 Thread Richard Johns
I have had similar experiences with IDLE on both XP and Ubuntu 8.04 and as a result I use IPython as much as possible. On XP I would recommend that you install Python(x,y), 2.1.9, http://www.pythonxy.com/foreword.php which includes IPython(0.9.1) and IDLE(1.2.2) as well as many other useful progra

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie question/closing a figure-window

2009-01-13 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear Wayne, 2009/1/13 Hajas, Wayne : > > Should I expect IDLE to work with matplotlib? Should I try and figure out > Ipython instead? > Definetely, IPython *is* the environment to work with Python plus Matplotlib, as it already includes built-in support for interactive use of MPL (and in general

[Matplotlib-users] Newbie question/closing a figure-window

2009-01-13 Thread Hajas, Wayne
I'm just getting into matplotlib and python. My apologies if I just haven't found the obvious documentation. I am running XP/Enthought Python 2.5/Idle/matplotlib 0.98.5.2 I run one of the scripts from the tutorial: import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt mu