[Matplotlib-users] Basemap Rendering Issue

[Steve M. <st...@st...>]

Hello,

I have an issue rendering with basemap on a Debian server using Agg. I have confirmed that matplotlib does render using the following example.

# do this before importing pylab or pyplot
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.plot([1,2,3])
fig.savefig('test.png')

However, I receive the following results when using basemap

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "testImageGen.py", line 117, in <module>
   setCommonBaseMapProperties(m)
 File "/home/forecast/sgWaveModel/sgUtil.py", line 34, in setCommonBaseMapProperties
   bmap.drawcoastlines(color=[15./255., 53./255.,73./255.], linewidth=0.15)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py", line 1479, in drawcoastlines
   self.set_axes_limits(ax=ax)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py", line 2607, in set_axes_limits
   and not ax.get_autoscalex_on()
AttributeError: 'AxesSubplot' object has no attribute 'get_autoscalex_on'


I am using matplotlib.use('Agg') as the first call in the script. The call to bmpa.drawcoastlines is the first call to basemap I make in my scripts. This works on a system with a windowing toolkit. Any ideas?


- steve