[Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib sphinx extension crashes Python

[Fredrik J. <fre...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting the sphinx matplotlib extensions to work. After
adding "'matplotlib.sphinxext.plot_directive'" to the extension list for my
documentation project, when running the sphinx build script, Python
immediately crashes ("python.exe has encountered a problem and needs to
close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience....").

I assume it's a matplotlib C extension issue (because I don't see why sphinx
would crash the interpreter).

I'm using 32-bit Windows XP, matplotlib 0.99.1 and sphinx 0.6.5. I've tried
both Python 2.5 and 2.6 with the same result.

Importing matplotlib and plotting works just fine.

Fredrik