The Mac OS backend is fairly new, and I don't believe any of the backend-specific threading code that ipython requires has been implemented for the OS-X backend. Just wanted to drop a note to say "it's probably not you". But as a non-Mac user, I may be wrong, and I hope to be corrected :)
Michiel: any idea how much effort would be involved here? Cheers, Mike keflavich wrote: > Hi, I'm using ipython 0.9.1 with the svn version of matplotlib on 64 bit > python on mac os x 10.5.7. > > I have only been able to get python-64 running with the MacOSX backend; all > of the others (wxpython, gtk, qt, tk) have failed for one reason or another. > > I've tried ipython without any flags and importing pylab on the command > line: > from pylab import * > and ipython -pylab, > and then plotting from a script. I retain access to the command line unless > I type "show()" at the command line, at which point I can't return to the > command line unless I close all of my graphics windows. > > I don't have this problem when running 32 bit python with qt or tk as the > backends. > > Is this an error? Should there be a command-line flag for ipython to start > threading for MacOSX specifically? > > Thanks, > Adam > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
