On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the info, but I still think this is rude behavior for a python > module, and believe it would be a good thing to fix it.
Generally we try and make it easy for the user to express their intention rather than guess what they are trying to do. So you can set your backend in an rc file http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/customizing.html or harcode it in your script (before importing pylab/pyplot) import matplotlib matplotlib.use('Agg') Or you can run your script from the command line with the -d flag python myscript.py -dAgg # will generate PNG, no GUI python myscript.py -dGTKAgg # will popup a GTK GUI python myscript.py -dTKAgg # will popup a Tkinter GUI This is convenient because the same script, unmodified, can either be used in a headless or a GUI environment. We support 6 user interface toolkits across 4 or more operating systems and many UI, python and OS versions. We basically decided it is too hard to guess what a user is trying to do across these environments (embedding in apps, web app servers, headless scripts generating PNG, working interactively from the shell), so we try to make it easy for them to express their preferences. If you have concrete suggestions on how we might accurately do this detection in these scenarios, feel free to contribute, but a solution that works for one environment, windowing system, or user interface toolkit is of limited use. See also http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/installing_faq.html#what-is-a-backend JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
