Re: [Matplotlib-users] Question to OO matplotlub tutorial

[Chris B. <Chr...@no...>]

Florian Lindner wrote:
> Hello,
> taken form the tutorial http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/leftwich_tut.txt I 
> use the code:
> 
> from matplotlib.backends.backend_agg import FigureCanvasAgg as FigureCanvas
> from matplotlib.figure import Figure
> 
> fig = Figure()
> canvas = FigureCanvas(fig)
> ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
> ax.plot([1,2,3])
> ax.set_title('hi mom')
> ax.grid(True)
> ax.set_xlabel('time')
> ax.set_ylabel('volts')
> canvas.print_figure('test')
> 
> Which IMO uses the AGG backend (which works fine for my using the pylab 
> interface).
> 
> But upon excecution I get:
> 
> No module named pygtk
> PyGTK version 1.99.16 or greater is required to run the GTK Matplotlib 
> backends

while this shouldn't be necessary for this script, you might try:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use("AGG") # I may have that string wrong.

before any of the other imports.

-Chris



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