Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap Rendering Issue

[Jeff W. <js...@fa...>]

On 7/12/10 5:34 PM, Steve McFarlin wrote:
> 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
>
>    

Steve:  What's your matplotlib version?  Does adding

ax.get_autoscalex_on()

in your first script cause that to fail as well?

-Jeff