Re: [Matplotlib-users] 0.99.1 crashes python on Windows XP [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

On 18/02/2010 15:12, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> On 08/10/2009 06:54, Ros...@ga... wrote:
>    
>> Hi Listers,
>>
>> I recently installed matplotlib 0.99.1 hoping to use mplot3d.  However, when doing 'from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D' python itself crashes.  Reinstalling matplotlib 0.98.5 gets everything working fine, without mplot3d, of course.
>>
>> I am running Windows XP, python 2.5.2 and numpy 1.2.1.  From the installation instructions I think I have all the prerequisites.
>>
>> Has anyone seen behaviour like this?
>>
>>      
> It looks like I run into a similar issue on a client machine.
>
> He is on Windows XP SP 2 Suisse edition and he gets "Unhandled
> Exception" error which does not show any traceback.
>
> My application is py2exe'd, so I did another build using 0.98.5 (both
> with numpy 1.3, Python 2.5.4 and wxPython 2.8.10) but now at least we
> get a traceback:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "appwine.pyo", line 939, in OnToolbarChart
>     File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 82, in load_module
>     File "frameplotmpl.pyo", line 24, in<module>
> ImportError: cannot import name FigureCanvasWxAgg
>
> The relevant section of frameplotmpl.py is:
> from numpy import arange, sin, pi
> import matplotlib as mpl
> # following is already done on stats page
> ##mpl.use('WXAgg')
> from matplotlib.backends.backend_wxagg import FigureCanvasWxAgg as FigureCanvas
> from matplotlib.backends.backend_wx import NavigationToolbar2Wx
> from matplotlib.dates import YearLocator, MonthLocator, DateFormatter
> from matplotlib.ticker import FormatStrFormatter
> from matplotlib.font_manager import FontProperties
>
> What is really strange I can run the same .exe on my XP test machine which is running XP SP2 English without any problems.
>
> I know there is not much to go by here, but would very much appreciate if anyone has some hints/tips on what I should look at (note that the client is non technical and I have no access to his machine).
>
>    
The user has an AMD CPU, could this be related to the numpy issue with 
AMD machines?

Werner