Re: [Matplotlib-users] pylab or not... crashes or not

[Xavier G. <xav...@gm...>]

John Hunter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Eric Emsellem
> <ems...@ob...> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> this may be a known problem (didn't find anything on this issue) but here it is:
>>
>> - when I start a session with "ipython -pylab" I often get crashes with my
>> session. When I mean "often", it means really often like once everything 1/2h or
>> so. A crash means that the command I just sent gets stuck and the only way for
>> me to get it back is to kill the PID of the ipython process...
>>
>> The problem is that it is almost impossible to reproduce a systematic behaviour
>> there so I cannot really send you a list of commands which results in a crash.
>> It just happens (often). However, after someone suggested it, I now enter
>> Ipython by a simple "ipython" and do immediately "from pylab import *". And then
>> I have NO crashes whatsoever.
>>
>> any suggestion there? Is that normal?
> 
> It is definitely not normal -- it almost never happens to me.  Does it
> help if you run TkAgg instead of GTKAgg.  Are you importing/using
> anything else when this is happening?  What version of numpy are you
> running?

Well I never use ipython -pylab and always use tkagg.

It could be a race in the way ipython manage to do that:
http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Cookbook/InterruptingThreads

What version of ipython are you using?

Xavier