Thanks, Ben. I'll install 1.0.1. I'm aware of the situation about Fedora 10.
Regards,
Jon
Benjamin Root-2 wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:02 PM, JonBL <jc.bl...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
>>
>> I've used Add/Remove Software to install
>> python-matplotlib-0.98.5.2-2.fc10(i386) and
>> python-matplotlib-tk-0.98.5.2-2.fc10(i386) on my fedora 10 box, plus 11
>> dependencies, including Tkinter. Some matplotlib examples, eg
>> pylab_examples
>> Examples/arctest.py works nicely, but many do not as presented.
>>
>> Example api Examples/barchart_demo raises the following traceback when
>> executed as-is:
>>
>> [jon@einstein matplotlib-examples]$ ./barchart.py
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "./barchart.py", line 18, in <module>
>> error_kw=dict(elinewidth=6, ecolor='pink'))
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 1656,
>> in bar
>> ret = gca().bar(*args, **kwargs)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 4075,
>> in
>> bar
>> r.update(kwargs)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line 548,
>> in
>> update
>> raise AttributeError('Unknown property %s'%k)
>> AttributeError: Unknown property error_kw
>>
>> (I've copied the example code into script barchart.py, and run it from
>> there.)
>>
>> The problem line is:
>>
>> rects1 = plt.bar(ind, menMeans, width,
>> color='r',
>> yerr=menStd,
>> error_kw=dict(elinewidth=6, ecolor='pink'))
>>
>> If I replace this with:
>>
>> rects1 = plt.bar(ind, menMeans, width,
>> color='r',
>> yerr=menStd)
>>
>> and do the same thing for the rects2 statement, the demonstration then
>> presents the bar chart.
>>
>> The problem seems to lie somewhere with the error_kw arg being passed to
>> method plt.bar. Is there something else I need to do to get the provided
>> examples to work as coded?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Jon
>>
>
> Jon,
>
> The examples on the website are for version 1.0.1, which is a couple of
> years older than version 0.98. Many examples utilizes new features that
> have since been added to matplotlib.
>
> Also, as a side note, Fedora 10 has stopped receiving updates of any kind
> about 2 years ago. This also means security updates.
>
> Ben Root
>
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