Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib backend issue

[Tommy G. <tg...@ma...>]

On Jul 20, 2013, at 11:19 AM, Michiel de Hoon <mjl...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi Tommy,
> 
> Look inside the pyplot.py module. I don't have the code in front of me now, but I guess it's a module that loads a bunch of other modules, and one of those wants to use X11. This should not depend on whether the developers‘ tools are present.
> -michiel 

Ok, so with a long list of print statements I have tracked it down to 
the statement

import matplotlib._png as _png

in image.py. So there seems to be a bad binding in the _png.so file. Is there
a way to figure out which bindings this file has?