j. vickroy wrote:
> Hello, I am a first-time user of matplotlib.
>
> When trying to run the plotmap.py example, the following traceback is
> generated:
>
> >plotmap.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\Documents and Settings\jim.vickroy\My
> Documents\Projects\High-latitudes D-region\plotmap.py", line 13, in
> <module>
> topoin = load('etopo20data.gz')
> File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mlab.py", line 1252, in
> load
> fh = cbook.to_filehandle(fname)
> File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\cbook.py", line 236, in
> to_filehandle
> fh = gzip.open(fname, flag)
> File "C:\Python25\lib\gzip.py", line 49, in open
> return GzipFile(filename, mode, compresslevel)
> File "C:\Python25\lib\gzip.py", line 95, in __init__
> fileobj = self.myfileobj = __builtin__.open(filename, mode or 'rb')
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'etopo20data.gz'
>
> How do I obtain this file and where should it reside?
>
> I have downloaded proj446_win32_bin.zip and unzipped it, but I do not
> see any such file.
>
> I have also attempted to search this user-group archive for references
> to "etopo20data.gz" but repeatedly get an "Unable to connect to Search
> Server" error so I do not know what I'm doing incorrectly.
>
> I have installed:
> - matplotlib-0.91.2.win32-py2.5.exe
> - basemap-0.9.9.1.win32-py2.5.exe
> - httplib2-0.4.0.zip
> for use with Python 2.5.1.
>
> I apologize if this has been previously addressed.
>
> Thanks,
> -- jv
>
It's in the examples directory of the basemap source tarball
(basemap-0.9.9.1.tar.gz). The examples directory is not included with
the binary installers.
-Jeff
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