Thanks. I'll consider it. See my post to John Hunter moments ago as to
why I "must" use IDLE. Basically, the users are not at all familiar with
Python, and historically the us has been that way for 3-4 years.
On 2/9/2010 8:20 AM, Ben Axelrod wrote:
> Maybe instead of plot.show() you should do something like:
>
> plot.draw()
> raw_input('Press ENTER to exit')
>
> Personally, I also use IDLE on Windows XP to edit my matplotlib files.
> However, I never execute in IDLE. I simply double click the file in windows
> explorer.
>
> -Ben
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Watson [mailto:sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 11:07 AM
> To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Matplotlib-users] Verifying the Use of show()? Win XP
>
> I'm sure not making much progress on understanding show(). When used in XP in
> IDLE or by file execution (click on file name), it seems to tie up the
> executing program. In IDLE, the shell window stops and one must exit the
> window.
>
> I'd appreciate it if someone could take any examples
> from<http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/index.html> and try to execute them
> as in the first paragraph to see if they terminate successfully.Let me know
> what OS used, hopefully XP, and if you used IDLE or file execution.
> I suspect you will find every example there ends with show(). Try putting a
> print statement after show() you've done it with the show() the last line.
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