Re: [Matplotlib-users] Histogram example doesn't run

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Bernd Eggink<mo...@su...> wrote:

>> Christoph, is GTKAgg the default backend in the win32 installers?  It
>> should be TkAgg.  Are you creating a setp.cfg when you build your
>> installer, as described at

Reminder to self: do not post before morning coffee.  For some reason
I thought you were on windows using on of Christoph's windows
installers.  Christoph, feel free to ignore this thread.

> Platform is 'linux2', and gtk.pygtk_version is (2, 14, 1).
>
> To get it working, I replaced matplotlib.svg by a link to matplotlib.png
> (which is pretty ugly, though). Maybe the error should be catched and
> the .png image used as a fallback.

Unfortunately, the exception glib.GError is gtk version dependent so I
can't easily catch it.  I am loathe to do a blanket except catch, but
I am not sure what the alternative is here.

JDH