Re: [Matplotlib-users] Windows defaults and the first example in the tutorial

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

>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:

    Darren> I've maybe posted too many times today (:-/), but I have
    Darren> one last comment before I settle in to look at all the
    Darren> nice demos that you awesome dudes have put together. I
    Darren> didnt know these demos existed, I didnt find them on my
    Darren> file system when I searched through the folders that the
    Darren> windows .exe had installed. I downloaded the .zip package
    Darren> and extracted the samples from there, then did a windows
    Darren> search to see if i just hadnt been looking in the right
    Darren> place. The results: it found the examples from the zip
    Darren> file in C:\[path]\examples, and it found another set of
    Darren> examples in matplotlib-0.53.1/examples. But note: there is
    Darren> no mention of C:\... for this set of files, and they dont
    Darren> show up in windows

It's a good point - the demos don't exist in the exe distro; I think
this is typical for binary distributions.  I think a note on the win32
installing section pointing out that there is an examples dir in the
zip file might be helpful.  But if there is a standard way for
including examples in a bdist_wininst and I'm missing it, please let
me know.

I'm adding to the win32 installing section

  The windows installer *.exe on the download page contains all the
  code you need to get up and tunning.  But if you want to try the
  many demos that come in the matplotlib src distribution, download
  the zip file and look in the examples subdir.

It's very helpful of you to let us know all the confusions you
experience in the beginning and where the web site isn't too
enlightening.  All of us veterans have forgotten what we didn't know
already, so keep it up.

JDH