Can't you do ginput(n=1) in a while loop? Ginput needs to end at some 
point, right? Initiating a never ending loop seems like the wrong 
solution for any real-life problem.

On 06/07/2010 01:15 PM, Thøger Emil Juul Thorsen wrote:
> Bump - no one knows a solution/workaround to this?
>
>
>    
>> Hello list;
>>
>> I'm new to python/matplotlib, migrating from IDL. I need to do some
>> interactive point selection with mouse, and the pyplot.ginput() routine
>> seemed to be just the right thing here. I do however need to be able to
>> make a not previously specified number of clicks, so ginput(n=0) is a
>> requirement.
>>
>> However, when I press enter on my laptop (with no middle mouse button),
>> I get the error message:
>>
>> TypeError: stop_event_loop() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)
>>
>> I've tried two different pieces of example code from the matplotlib SF
>> page.
>> I'm using Matplotlib 0.99.1 on Ubuntu 10.04.
>> Is there any solution or workaround? If I cannot have this
>> functionality, it is, unfortunately, kind of a deal breaker for at least
>> some of my work, and I'd like to keep it purely Python.
>>
>> Best regards;
>>
>> Emil
>>
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