[Matplotlib-users] Newbie question/closing a figure-window

[Hajas, W. <Way...@df...>]

I'm just getting into matplotlib and python.  My apologies if I just
haven't found the obvious documentation.  

I am running XP/Enthought Python 2.5/Idle/matplotlib 0.98.5.2

I run one of the scripts from the tutorial:

	import numpy as np
	import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

	mu, sigma = 100, 15
	x = mu + sigma * np.random.randn(10000)

	# the histogram of the data
	n, bins, patches = plt.hist(x, 50, normed=1, facecolor='g',
alpha=0.75)

	plt.xlabel('Smarts')
	plt.ylabel('Probability')
	plt.title('Histogram of IQ')
	plt.text(60, .025, r'$\mu=100,\ \sigma=15$')
	plt.axis([40, 160, 0, 0.03])
	plt.grid(True)

	plt.show()

A window with the figure appears on my screen.  It looks very nice.  But
now my PYTHON-Shell screen is dead.

I can go to the figure window.  I right click on the upper-border to
close the window.  I get the following error message on the
PYTHON-Shell.


	Exception in Tkinter callback
	Traceback (most recent call last):
	  File "C:\Python25\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1403, in
__call__
	    return self.func(*args)
	  File "C:\Python25\lib\idlelib\MultiCall.py", line 151, in
handler
	    r = l[i](event)
	  File "C:\Python25\lib\idlelib\ScriptBinding.py", line 166, in
run_module_event
	    interp.runcode(code)
	  File "C:\Python25\lib\idlelib\PyShell.py", line 701, in
runcode
	    self.interp.restart_subprocess()
	AttributeError: ModifiedInterpreter instance has no attribute
'interp'


And the shell-window is still dead.  I can't do anything else until I
close all my Python windows.

Is there a better way to close the figure-window?

Should I expect IDLE to work with matplotlib?  Should I try and figure
out Ipython instead?

Should I look for a Tkinter installation?  My current version is
Revision: 50704?

Any help or suggestions are appreciated.


Wayne Hajas
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