Re: [Matplotlib-users] I get a warning when running code with ipython, but not with python

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

This looks like a bug for the IPython folks.  If you make a file 
containing only "import gtk" and "%run" that file, one gets the same error.

Mike

On 11/13/2011 10:30 PM, Alejandro Weinstein wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I just installed matplolib from source code, and Ipython using pip, in
> Ubuntu 11.10.
>
> When I run this code
>
> ########### foo.py ############
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> plt.plot([1,2,3,4])
> plt.ylabel('some numbers')
> plt.show()
> ##############################
>
> in ipython, I get the following warning:
>
> In [1]: %run foo.py
> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:54: Warning:
> ignoring sys.argv: it must be a list of strings
>    _gtk.init_check()
>
> Other than the warning the plot looks OK.
>
> Also, if I type each sentence in ipython, I don't get the warning. I
> don't get a warning if I use the standard python interpreter either
> (as in $ python foo.py).
>
> Any clue about this? Should I report this in the Ipython mailing list?
>
> I am running Ipython 0.11 and matplotlib 1.2.x.
>
> Alejandro
>
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