Re: [Matplotlib-users] segfaults in ipython

[Charles M. <cm...@in...>]

	The problem seems to be alleviated for me now from you latest commit, John.

Thanks,

Fernando Perez wrote:
> Charles Moad wrote:
> 
>> I would consider this a python bug, and I just added a quick fix for me.
>>
>> Changed line 511 in Prompts.py to say
>>     if self.Pprint and hasattr(arg, '__repr__'):
>> instead of
>>     if self.Pprint:
>>
>> You probably don't want to add this for everything, but would it be 
>> possible to override the display method of the CachedOutput when the 
>> pylab option is specified?  Further, you could only do this for python 
>> v.2.4.
> 
> 
> Since it's really a python bug, I'd rather see it fixed upstream than 
> adding (yet another) hack in ipython to defend against it.  But I also 
> don't want ipython to crash for users, that's for sure.
> 
> Let's see if John can get his pycxx animals to grow a __repr__, which 
> will fix the issue.  If that doesn't work, I'll go ahead and stick in a 
> version-specific defense layer into Prompts.py to at least help the 
> ipython users, while python fixes the problem upstream.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> f