Re: [matplotlib-devel] propagation of error messages in matplotlib

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

>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Chaplin <ste...@ya...> writes:

    Steve> I've updated backend_gtk.py in cvs to use a default
    Steve> exception handler, and noticed a few things in the process:
    Steve> - sys.excepthook does not catch SystemExit, which is what
    Steve> we wanted anyway.

For some reason with matplotlib CVS using backend GTK on linux, I no
longer recover the linux shell when I close the figure by clicking on
the 'x' in the figure window

  > python somefile.py

I have to use CTRL-C.