Re: [Matplotlib-users] show() does not pop up a window

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

On Tuesday, February 21, 2012, Michael Rawlins wrote:

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> *From:* Benjamin Root <ben...@ou... <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
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> *Subject:* Re: [Matplotlib-users] show() does not pop up a window
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> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Michael Rawlins <raw...@ya...<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'raw...@ya...');>
> > wrote:
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> I've just installed numpy 1.6 and matplotlib 1.0.0 from source code on two
> linux machines, both running linux Ubuntu OS with python installed from
> Synaptic Package Manager. I've noticed no anomalies one machine. On the
> second machine, graphic window does not pop up. I'm run python
> non-interactively. For example:
>
> > python demo_axes_grid.py
>
> returns to command prompt without error on misbehaving machine. That same
> standard program works fine on the other machine. Interestingly, everything
> was working fine yesterday under version 0.99.
>
> Mike
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>
> Mike,
>
> At the very least, please try out v1.0.1, but I recommend v1.1.0.  These
> releases contains many fixes to the show() behavior.  If it still doesn't
> work, could you please attach your mpl build log?
>
> Ben Root
>
>
> I've removed v1.0.0 and installed v1.1.0.  Tried Eric's suggestion.
>
> >python
> Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec  7 2009, 18:45:15)
> [GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import matplotlib
> >>> print matplotlib.get_backend()
> agg
> >>>
>
>
> Then quit python and ran demo.
>
> >python demo_axes_grid.py
>
> No plot window came up.
>
> Ben:  Where is the build log?  A file name?  Does the build require and
> option to be given to produce the log?
>
> Mike
>



The results show that none of the backends are building and you are only
getting the non-interactive backends.  For the build log, just redirect the
output to a file, like so:

python  setup.py install > build.log

Ben Root