Re: [Matplotlib-users] Strange Recursion error with plot()

[Durand <du...@gm...>]

On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:30:58 -0000, Darren Dale <dsd...@gm...> wrote:

Oh and thinking about it, I think matplotlib needs a better error message. Maybe something will less recursions =]

Thanks again.

> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Durand <du...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm using matplotlib on Ubuntu Jaunty and a script that I wrote recently
>> stopped working. I think this may have something to do with changes in
>> matplotlib as it fails with the error pasted at http://pastebin.ca/1325576and the main problem is that I can't actually work out what the error is
>> because it just recurses until python stops it.
>> I don't think this is a fault of my script so it might be a bug with
>> matplotlib but I'm really not sure...
>>
>> The matplotlib version is 0.98.5.2-1 but I'm not sure that that will help.
>> Numpy version is 1:1.1.1-2 and Python is 2.5.4. If I need to add more
>> details, please ask.
>>
>
>
> It would help to know what exactly you are passing to plot(). I suspect that
> you are passing strings at some point where you should be passing numbers.
>
> Darren
>