Re: [Matplotlib-users] crash on MacOS X

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

Russell E Owen wrote:
>> well, I didnt' mean more than one numerix option, exactly. What I meant 
>> was that MPL is using numarray, but another module you've imported is 
>> using Numeric (or numpy or whatever).
> 
> Ah. I can guarantee that's happening. Some of my code uses Numeric (due 
> to high speed on short arrays) and some uses numarray (because I started 
> using it for all new code when it looked like it would take over).

Then this could be it. In general, they should co-exist just fine, but 
do know someone else has weird crashing problems when they were mixed 
with MPL (and GDAL, in his case). Both numpy and Numeric, and numarray 
have a lot of extension code that shares names, etc. who knows what 
problem that can cause?

 > I
> hope to switch to numpy for everything once the dust settles,

good plan, and it's getting close. The API should be stable now. The 
sooner the better, I think. You'll be a lot more help with bugs or 
potential bugs like this one.

>>> I also tried setting numerix to Numeric and it still happens.

Darn.

> I don't have wx or gtk installed, so no easy way to test those backends.

if you install the mpkg on pythonmac.org/packages, wx should work. 
that's pretty easy.

> It does not crash with plain old Agg (but of course I don't see any plot).

Does it save a png successfully?

> I'll be happy to try the "non-agg TK back-end" if you can tell me what 
> setting to use for it.

hmm. I just assumed it was there, but I can't find it either.

> I started this project several years ago and at the time Tcl/Tk was the 
> only game in town for Mac+unix+windows cross-platform support. 

I meant that tongue-in-cheek -- we all have our reasons, and I know 
you've been using TK for a good long time now.

>  Sometimes I wish I'd 
> used Java, even though the I strongly prefer Python, just to get a 
> standard GUI.

which one would that be? AWT? Swing? SWT?, or for that matter, wxJAVA.

> I'll try bulding matplotlib from source, just to see if there might be 
> some quirk about the installer package.

It's always worth a shot!

-Chris



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