[Matplotlib-users] odd error from interactive.py

[matthew a. <ma...@ca...>]

Hi

Great to see another release with lots of improvements. Motivated by your 
new FAQ and the web page about interactive usage, I tried interactive.py 
again.

The good news is I got it to work and it looks very handy indeed. It has 
autocomplete! Yay!

The bad news is it didn't work first go (and I think this is why I didn't 
try it out earlier):

~/downloads/matplotlib/examples$ ./interactive.py
: No such file or directory

The above fails, but the below works. I tried changing the first line from

#!/usr/bin/env python

to

#!/usr/bin/python

But it didn't help, even though that works on other scripts of mine. But 
the below works:

~/downloads/matplotlib/examples$ python ./interactive.py
['./interactive.py']
Welcome to matplotlib.
 
    help(matlab)   -- shows a list of all matlab compatible commands 
provided
    help(plotting) -- shows a list of plot specific commands
     
>> plot([1, 2, 3])
[<matplotlib.lines.Line2D instance at 0x8399054>]

Interactive use easily justifies me wrapping this with a script so I can 
jump into it easily form the command line, but I thought this might affect 
other people trying interactive.py for the first time. I'm not quite sure 
how to debug the problem. I'm using bash under Linux by the way.

m.