[Matplotlib-users] pygtk.require('2.0') error message not being displayed

[Steve C. <ste...@ya...>]

I've been receiving the error message
"matplotlib requires pygtk-1.99.16 or greater -- trying anyway.  Please
hold on"
which is puzzling since I have pygtk 2.0 installed.

The message is triggered from this code in backend_gtk.py:

try:  # todo: test this with default RHL8 install.
    import pygtk
    pygtk.require('2.0')
except:
    print >>sys.stderr, 'matplotlib requires pygtk-1.99.16 or greater --
trying anyway.  Please hold on'

The exception catches the error, but does not show you the error message
that pygtk.require('2.0') generates. I think it would be improved by
changing it to:

try:  # todo: test this with default RHL8 install.
    import pygtk
    pygtk.require('2.0')
except:
    print sys.exc_info()[1]
    print >>sys.stderr, 'matplotlib requires pygtk-1.99.16 or greater --
trying anyway.  Please hold on'

Which in my case, would then tell me:

"pygtk.require() must be called before importing gtk
matplotlib requires pygtk-1.99.16 or greater -- trying anyway.  Please
hold on"

Which lets me know what I've done wrong.

Steve

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Steve Chaplin <ste...@ya...>