Use pylab.savefig('log_plot'). Also saving the figure to file and
showing it interactively in the same script might involve switching
backends, which might not work as expected.
It is advisable to downgrade to numpy 1.3.
-- Christoph
On 2/9/2010 10:44 AM, Lee Boger wrote:
>
> Although, if I close the figure then re-run the script, a new figure
> pops up but it doesn't have any data plotted. Interpreter is now locked
> up. I'm still not fixing it completely. There is also no figure stored
> as a file log_plot.
>
> Lee
>
>
> *Christoph Gohlke <cgoh...@uci.edu>*
>
> 02/09/2010 01:23 PM
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> Subject
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> Change the last line to pylab.show() and it should work.
>
> Anyway, this example should not crash the interpreter. I can reproduce
> the crash on Python 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6 (32 and 64 bit) on Windows with
> mpl 0.99.1 but not on Ubuntu 9.1 with mpl 0.99.0.
>
> The shortest example that crashes is:
>
> python -c "import pylab;pylab.subplot(111).figure.show()"
>
> or on the interactive prompt:
>
>>>> import pylab
>>>> pylab.subplot(111).figure.show()
>>>> exit()
> Fatal Python error: PyEval_RestoreThread: NULL tstate
>
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
> way.
> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>
>
> -- Christoph
>
> On 2/9/2010 7:57 AM, Lee Boger wrote:
>>
>> Windows XP Professional with Python 2.5 installed (pywin32 build 210) -
>> came with dSPACE software package
>>
>> Downloaded and installed matplotlib-0.99.1.win32-py2.5.exe from
>> sourceforge.net
>>
>> Downloaded and installed numpy-1.4.0-win32-superpack-python2.5.exe from
>> sourceforge.net
>>
>> Executing the following simple "log plot" script within PythonWin:
>>
>> *from* matplotlib *import* pylab
>>
>> # Create some artificial data.
>> test_frequency = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
>> 17, 18, 19, 20]
>> test_results = [-0.2, -0.7, -1.0, -1.5, -2.0, -2.5, -3.0, -3.5, -4, -5,
>> -6, -7.1, -8, -9, -10, -11, -12, -15, -20, -25]
>> spec_frequency = [6, 8]
>> spec_results = [-3.0, -3.0]
>>
>> # Plot
>> figure = pylab.subplot(111)
>> figure.semilogx()
>> figure.scatter(test_frequency, test_results, s=20, c='b', marker='s',
>> edgecolors='none')
>> figure.scatter(spec_frequency, spec_results, s=40, c='g', marker='s',
>> edgecolors='none')
>> figure.grid(True)
>> figure.set_xlabel(r"Frequency (Hz)", fontsize = 12)
>> figure.set_ylabel(r"Actuator Response (db)", fontsize = 12)
>>
>> figure.figure.savefig('log_plot')
>> figure.figure.show()
>>
>>
>> Plots a figure on the screen that looks correct, then the following
>> error (when I click OK, PythonWin closes)
>>
>>
>>
>> Any advice would be appreciated. Maybe it's an installation or setup
>> issue, but I'm pretty knew to Python programming and don't know how to
>> debug this.
>>
>> Lee Boger
>>
>>
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