It looks like some syntax introduced in python-2.4 is starting to find its
way into matplotlib:
File
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib-0.90.1_r3867-py2.3-linux-i686.egg/matplotlib/texmanager.py,
line 113
+ tuple('font.'+n for n in ('family', ) + font_families)
Does anyone have an opinion on how much longer we will support python-2.3?
Maybe a good guide would be to support the most up-to-date RHEL release,
as well as the prior release. (At my lab, we haven't updated our RHEL
computers to version 5 yet, the first to include python-2.4.)
Is the
After removing my build/ and site-packages-matplotlib*, I installed the
most up-to-date svn numpy and matplotlib on a RHEL4 machine. I'm getting
the following errors:
File
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib-0.90.1_r3867-py2.3-linux-i686.egg/matplotlib/_cm.py,
line 5962, in ?
Michael Droettboom wrote:
Is the current Mac OS-X version also something to consider?
I don't think so. You really need to install a newer/better version to
do anything significant with python on OS-X -- particularly anything
with a GUI.
John Hunter wrote:
We don't really need generator