Re: RE : [matplotlib-devel] RE : [Matplotlib-users] crash on matplotlib.matlab import on win32

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory Lielens <gre...@ff...> writes:

    Gregory> It looks more like it is specific to my laptop, cause
    Gregory> installing exactly the same python, numarray and
    Gregory> matplotlib on another winXP laptop did not showed the
    Gregory> behavior. It will thus be a hard to reproduce bug, cause
    Gregory> I find only one computer exhibiting this behavior for now
    Gregory> (on the other hand, the behavior of this computer is very
    Gregory> reliable: systematic crash all the time, even after
    Gregory> python/nuamrray/matplotlib reinstall ).  If I try to
    Gregory> install another version of python on this laptop (python
    Gregory> 2.3.3), it crashes the same...I could try older versions
    Gregory> (2.2.3 for example), but 2.3.X is required for numarray
    Gregory> 0.9 so I should go to older version there also, I prefer
    Gregory> to do it only if you find it usefull...

No, I wouldn't ask you to try python 2.2!  I asked about 2.3.3 because
matplotlib has been used by many people on windows with that version
whereas 2.3.4 is comparatively new.  Just a shot in the dark really.
When you uninstalled and reinstalled python, did you remove all traces
of the old python dir after running the uninstaller?

It's strikes me as very odd that the same python + numarray +
matplotlib + operating system would generate different reference
counting behavior.  Can anyone think of a possible explanation for
this?  

Another thing to test - try the numeric and numarray builds of
matplotlib.  Remove C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\matplotlib *and*
C:\Python23\share\matplotlib and then install and test

  * numeric build -=
    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/matplotlib-0.54.2.win32-py2.3.exe?download
  
 * remove the dirs above and then try the numarray build
   http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/matplotlib-0.54.2-numarray0.9.win32-py2.3.exe?download


Same problem?

    Gregory> Yes, if you have this for windows I would be happy to
    Gregory> test!

OK, when I get one ready I'll post a link.

JDH