Re: [Matplotlib-users] Verifying the Use of show()? Win XP

[Wayne W. <sie...@sb...>]

Thanks. I'll consider it. See my post to John Hunter moments ago as to 
why I "must" use IDLE. Basically, the users are not at all familiar with 
Python, and historically the us has been that way for 3-4 years.

On 2/9/2010 8:20 AM, Ben Axelrod wrote:
> Maybe instead of plot.show() you should do something like:
>
> plot.draw()
> raw_input('Press ENTER to exit')
>
> Personally, I also use IDLE on Windows XP to edit my matplotlib files.  However, I never execute in IDLE.  I simply double click the file in windows explorer.
>
> -Ben
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Watson [mailto:sie...@sb...]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 11:07 AM
> To: mat...@li...
> Subject: [Matplotlib-users] Verifying the Use of show()? Win XP
>
> I'm sure not making much progress on understanding show(). When used in XP in IDLE or by file execution (click on file name), it seems to tie up the executing program.  In IDLE, the shell window stops and one must exit the window.
>
> I'd appreciate it if someone could take any examples from<http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/index.html>  and try to execute them as in the first paragraph to see if they terminate successfully.Let me know what OS used, hopefully XP, and if you used IDLE or file execution.
> I suspect you will find every example there ends with show(). Try putting a print statement after show() you've done it with the show() the last line.
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"Crime is way down. War is declining. And that's far from the good 
news." -- Steven Pinker (and other sources) Why is this true, but yet 
the media says otherwise? The media knows very well how to manipulate us 
(see limbic, emotion, $$). -- WTW