Hi,
sorry if this has already been addressed. I did a search on the archives, but
even though that turned up lots of hits, none of them seemed to be related to
the issue.
The following very simple example will reliably crash in Python 2.7.[0-2] with
matplotlib 1.0.1 under a 64 bit German Windows (and probably also on other
machines where you can set an equivalent locale):
---
import matplotlib
from pylab import arange,sin,pi
t = arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.01)
s = sin(2*pi*t)
import locale
# the locale setting in the next line makes pyplot.plot crash
# have to use "deu_deu" instead of "de_DE" on German Windows
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'deu_deu')
print "locale =", locale.getlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC)
print "will plot ..."
matplotlib.pyplot.plot(t, s, linewidth=1.0)
# doesn't get this far with German locale
print "will show ..."
matplotlib.pyplot.show()
---
The program crashes in pyplot.plot(). The stacktrace is:
---
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\[...]\badScreenSizeMPL.py", line 14, in <module>
matplotlib.pyplot.plot(t, s, linewidth=1.0)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 2279, in plot
ax = gca()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 593, in gca
ax = gcf().gca(**kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 292, in gcf
return figure()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 270, in figure
**kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backends\backend_tkagg.py",
line 82, in new_figure_manager
figManager = FigureManagerTkAgg(canvas, num, window)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backends\backend_tkagg.py",
line 400, in __init__
self.toolbar = NavigationToolbar2TkAgg( canvas, self.window )
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backends\backend_tkagg.py",
line 667, in __init__
NavigationToolbar2.__init__(self, canvas)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backend_bases.py", line 2310,
in __init__
self._init_toolbar()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\backends\backend_tkagg.py",
line 711, in _init_toolbar
borderwidth=2)
File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 2466, in __init__
Widget.__init__(self, master, 'frame', cnf, {}, extra)
File "C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1977, in __init__
(widgetName, self._w) + extra + self._options(cnf))
_tkinter.TclError: bad screen distance "640.0"
Fatal Python error: PyEval_RestoreThread: NULL tstate
---
The reason appears to be that at some point Tkinter tries to parse the string
"640.0" as a number, which does not work in a locale where the decimal marker
is, e.g., the comma (as in German). If you comment out the locale setting (or
set it to "C"), the example works.
The float value of 640.0 seems to emerge from the following piece of code in
"backend_tkagg.py".
---
class NavigationToolbar2TkAgg(NavigationToolbar2, Tk.Frame):
[...]
def _init_toolbar(self):
xmin, xmax = self.canvas.figure.bbox.intervalx
height, width = 50, xmax-xmin
Tk.Frame.__init__(self, master=self.window,
width=width, height=height,
borderwidth=2)
---
Through the initialization by difference, "width" is a 'numpy.float64';
changing the assignment of "height, width" to
height, width = 50, int(xmax-xmin)
makes the example program run through without problems.
One the one hand, I guess this should be fixed in the depths of Tkinter (where
apparently a number type gets stringified just to be parsed again as a number).
One the other hand, it would be very simple fix in the TkAgg backend, and it
seems sensible to make the width an int. (Perhaps even the intervals in
intervalx should already be ints?)
I would like to point out that, even though this might sound like a contrived
problem, it can easily occur where machines are set up with different
languages; we had a tool run on an English Windows, but we got the stack trace
from above when we moved that tool to a German Windows which we believed to be
set up in just the same way as the original Windows. It took us a day to figure
out what the reason behind the cryptic Tkinter error was.
Kind regards,
H.
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