Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib 0.98.5.3 windows binaries available

2009-06-15 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Christoph Gohlke wrote: > Hi John, > > I rebuilt the installer and egg and confirmed that the distributed > matplotlibrc file contains "backend: TkAgg". > > > >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib 0.98.5.3 windows binaries available

2009-06-15 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:12 AM, CaseyWeb wrote: > > I do have wxPython 2.8 installed so I don't know why this would have caused > the problem in the first place, but I changed the matplotlibrc to backend : > TkAgg and I still get the windows crash. Just to be clear, this isn't an > import error

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib 0.98.5.3 windows binaries available

2009-06-15 Thread CaseyWeb
I do have wxPython 2.8 installed so I don't know why this would have caused the problem in the first place, but I changed the matplotlibrc to backend : TkAgg and I still get the windows crash. Just to be clear, this isn't an import error or simple python exit; I'm actually getting the Windows cra

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib 0.98.5.3 windows binaries available

2009-06-15 Thread pm13
It seems that default backend for Windows binaries is TkAgg in Python 2.5 but WXAgg in Python 2.6 (files from matplotlib/mpl-data in eggs are different).So without WxPython (what is quite common) there is ImportError with simple "from pylab import *". It could be solved very simply and then every

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib 0.98.5.3 windows binaries available

2009-06-15 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:38 AM, CaseyWeb wrote: > I installed this on python 2.6.2 using the windows installer (the .exe) but > it crashes even on something as > simple as importing pylab from the interactive prompt. To make sure it > wasn't a conflict with other packages, I created a clean virt

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib 0.98.5.3 windows binaries available

2009-06-15 Thread CaseyWeb
John, I installed this on python 2.6.2 using the windows installer (the .exe) but it crashes even on something as simple as importing pylab from the interactive prompt. To make sure it wasn't a conflict with other packages, I created a clean virtualenv directory and installed matplotlib from th

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib 0.98.5.3 windows binaries available

2009-06-15 Thread CaseyWeb
I installed the binaries using the .exe file on Python 2.6.2 but it throws a windows exception when I try to do anything with matplotlib, even just typing 'import pylab' in the python command interpreter. To rule out any conflicts, I created a python virtualenv directory and installed matplotlib

[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib 0.98.5.3 windows binaries available

2009-06-14 Thread John Hunter
The windows binaries for the latest matplotlib release are now available for download at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=278194 for python2.5 and 2.6 (if you need 2.4 please respond here). Sorry for the delay, but we hit a nasty python2.6/libpng/mingw th