Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with show()

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Jorge Scandaliaris
<jor...@ya...>wrote:

> Jorge Scandaliaris <jorgesmbox-ml@...> writes:
> >
> > I was running my example with the -pylab option set in ipython, and
> adding a
> > call to plt.ion() doesn't change things. I also run gtkagg backend. I
> guess I
> > have a problem with my installation of matplotlib, unless this is
> something
> > that changed after mpl-1.0. I will try mpl-svn next and see.
> >
>
> Luckily enough, using mpl-svn solved the problem.
>
> BTW, I had issues following the instructions for cloning the git mirror
> (
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/coding_guide.html#cloning-the-git-mirror
> ).
> Something changed in github, or there's typo somewhere?
>
> Instead of:
> # Download the entire git repository into "matplotlib", name the source
> repository "svn".
> git clone --origin svn gi...@gi...:astraw/matplotlib.git
>
> I ended up doing:
> git clone --origin svn git://github.com/astraw/matplotlib.git
>
> The rest of instructions worked fine (at least it seems to me).
>
> Regards,
>
> Jorge
>
>
>
Yeah, those instructions should be changed.  The current instructions would
presume that you would use your github username in-place of the 'git'
username.  Your command works fine for everyone who just wants to pull from
the repo.

Ben Root