[Matplotlib-users] Python - Matplotlib - Can't plot - Tkinter crashes

[Anand R. <ana...@ya...>]

I have cross posted this at Stackoverflow.com

I installed `python 2.7.2` from `ActiveState` and then installed `matplotlib` from the sources. I getting errors when I tried a simple plotting procedure to test it.

The error is similar to the one described here (http://code.google.com/p/cing/issues/detail?id=268) but it is for Macintosh. I work on a Linux machine and the info about machine is given below:

    % cat /etc/redhat-release 
    CentOS release 4.6 (Final)
    
    % uname -a
    Linux scdbuild04 2.6.9-67.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Nov 16 12:49:06 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


The error is produced by:

    % python
    ActivePython 2.7.2.5 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
    Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 24 2011, 11:24:26) 
    [GCC 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8)] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import matplotlib.pylab as plt
    >>> plt.ion()
    >>> x = [1,2,3]
    >>> plt.plot(x)
    Exception in Tkinter callback
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/a/b/python2.7.2/linux26_x86_64/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1410, in __call__
        return self.func(*args)
      File "/a/b/python2.7.2/linux26_x86_64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py", line 236, in resize
        self.show()
      File "/a/b/python2.7.2/linux26_x86_64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py", line 240, in draw
        tkagg.blit(self._tkphoto, self.renderer._renderer, colormode=2)
      File "/a/b/python2.7.2/linux26_x86_64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/tkagg.py", line 19, in blit
        tk.call("PyAggImagePhoto", photoimage, id(aggimage), colormode, id(bbox_array))
    TclError
    [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x2a9da13310>]


Can some one help me fix this error?

Thanks
Anand