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

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

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

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

Is it possible you have both installed (eg, on a redhat 9 install the
default pygtk is 1.99.14) and that you are importing the wrong one

    Steve> error message that pygtk.require('2.0') generates. I think
    Steve> it would be improved by changing it to:

Good point.  I changed it.


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


This looks like you imported gtk in your app/script before either

  1) doing the pygtk.require thing
  2) importing matplotlib first

If you do either of these, does everything work fine for you?

JDH