Re: [Matplotlib-users] Can't run matplotlib without "tk" backend on windows?

[Darren D. <dar...@co...>]

On Wednesday 09 January 2008 09:27:39 am Francesco Pretto wrote:
> 2008/1/9, Charlie Moad <cw...@gm...>:
> > You need to set a different backend in your matplotlibrc or specify it
> > first.
> >
> > import matplotlib
> > matplotlib.use('Agg')
> >
> > You can also run scripts passing the backend:
> >
> > python lab1_ex2.py -dAgg
>
> Oh, thanks. That really seems a RTFM...
>
> However, in linux i hadn't to select the backend, i just configure
> "setup.cfg" to exclude backends and, after compiling, matplotlib was
> running just fine choosing the right backend (gtk or gtkagg). Isn't
> this a sign that matplotlib isn't able to detect the correct default
> backend at compile time (at least on windows)?
>
> However, thanks again. As promised, now I'll try to be more autonomous ;-)

setup.py attempts to select the appropriate backend for you, based on what 
backends were available at build time. That selection is written into the 
default matplotlibrc file, which resides in 
site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data. If matplotlib finds another matplotlibrc 
file (for example, in the current working directory, in $HOME/.matplotlib, 
etc), then it will use those settings instead. I would guess that is the 
source of the problem.

Darren