Re: [Matplotlib-users] Agg backend problem with 0.53

[Todd M. <jm...@st...>]

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 06:11, Gary Ruben wrote:
> I've installed 0.53 on my Win98 and Win2000 PCs and both suffer a problem which seems specific to the default Agg backend. It's an interoperability problem with trying to use TkAgg from the SciTE editor IDE or from an IDLE module window.

As JDH suggested, TkAgg works (as far as I've tested anyway) with IDLE
by using the -n flag when starting IDLE;  I build -n into the shortcut
for IDLE on my desktop.

In general, TkAgg is known to work with:

python
idle -n
IPython

TkAgg is known not work with:

SciTE 
pythonw
Pythonwin
idle

Both of the latter shells fail with a RuntimeError "abnormal program
termination".

I checked on www.python.org about Tkinter and Pythonwin and they're
known not to work together so that explains TkAgg on Pythonwin.
http://www.python.org/topics/tkinter/trouble.html

I also looked into SciTE a little and discovered that it is related to
Scintilla which in turn was derived from Pythonwin.
http://www.scintilla.org/
This indicates to me that the same problem with Tkinter may be affecting
both (SciTE and Pythonwin)... but I am out on a limb.

Regards,
Todd
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Todd Miller <jm...@st...>