On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Gael Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hum, maybe I am not understanding properly what you mean here. It acts on > matplotlib only when it is passed the -pylab argument, AFAIK. Thus if you OK, at least I understand the issue now a bit better, thanks for explaining it. But I am not entirely comfortable with the solution. In general we have avoided trying to magically get stuff right in favor of making sure people are properly configured. This poses inconveniences to new users but at least allows people who are clear in their intentions to get what they want. I worry by forcing the backend to wx or wxagg just because wx has already been imported we are making too many assumptions (someone may want to use matplotlib pyplot in a wx app to generate pure image figures with the ps backend, etc...). We also now support custom external backends with the module://some_backend syntax so in principle one could be using a custom wx backend with a custom renderer outside of mpl. I'm sure there is a way to get what you want, but this may not be it. Basically, you want to support users who are using ipython -wthread but not -pylab who later import pylab with a misconfigured rc. Is this really desirable? Certainly you would want to trap this or warn or something so they don't get strange segfaults or other hard to diagnose errors, but automagically switching the backend in mpl may be too helpful in the way that microsoft windows is occassionally too helpful. What about checking to see if your ipython module is in sys.modules when pyplot is imported, checking the backend, and then importing it, checking for wthread etc, issuing a severe warning with known misconfigurations, eg gtkagg, with instructions on how to fix is (eg "your matplotlibrc file is here and the backend needs to be set to such-and-such...")? JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
