Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems with python makeshots.py

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

>>>>> "Nils" == Nils Wagner <nw...@me...> writes:

    Nils> ~/cvs/matplotlib/htdocs/screenshots> /usr/bin/python
    Nils> makeshots.py Making screenshot simple_plot.py Traceback
    Nils> (most recent call last): File "simple_plot.py", line 1, in ?
    Nils> from matplotlib.matlab import * File
    Nils> "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/site-packages/matplotlib/matlab.py",
    Nils> line 109, in ?  from mlab import * File
    Nils> "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/site-packages/matplotlib/mlab.py",
    Nils> line 147 else: numFreqs = NFFT//2+1 ^ SyntaxError: invalid
    Nils> syntax

matplotlib requires python2.2, which supports 

  from __future__ import division

That line should be the on or near the first code line of
matplotlib/mlab.py.  When this is imported, the integer division //
operator is defined.

See what's new in python2.2
http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.3/whatsnew/node7.html

I'm surprised you didn't get an error on the call to
from __future__ import division.

JDH