Re: [Matplotlib-users] example doesn't work

[John B. <by...@bu...>]

Check your matplotlibrc to make sure you have a windowing toolkit=20
backend selected (TkAgg, GTKAgg, WXAgg, etc.)  It sounds like you might
have the postscript backend or similar selected.

John


On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:25:37PM +0200, stdout stdout wrote:
> Hello list!
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> I spent the entire weekend trying to make the first example in the
> screenshot section
> (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html)  work :
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> from pylab import *
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> t =3D arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.01)
> s =3D sin(2*pi*t)
> plot(t, s, linewidth=3D1.0)
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> xlabel('time (s)')
> ylabel('voltage (mV)')
> title('About as simple as it gets, folks')
> grid(True)
> show()
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> The given example works on my friend's system, but here what it does ,
> it's just a quiet exit :
> $python example.py
> $
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> I then try ed to run python with --verbose-helpful but it was still
> all quiet. Also  trying to install scipy & friends manually haven't
> produced any success ;-( .
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> I'm desperate as I really don't know where to look for the issue. I'm
> that helps, i'm using gentoo.
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> Enjoy!
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