Thank you everyone for your help,
In the end, I wasn't able to get Tkinter to register as the backend, so I
downloaded and setup PyQt4.
Once PyQt4 was setup, I changed the backend to Qt4Agg in the matplotlibrc
file and that worked properly.
Best Regards,
Jorge Garcia
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Jorge Garcia <jgarc...@fiu.edu> wrote:
> In case it helps,
>
> I also tried the simple plot test recommended in the matplotlib FAQ:
>
> Here's the traceback it gave me.
>
> $HOME=/home/cadsoft
> CONFIGDIR=/home/cadsoft/.matplotlib
> matplotlib data path
> /usr/local/lib/python3.1/dist-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data
> loaded rc file
> /usr/local/lib/python3.1/dist-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc
> matplotlib version 1.1.0
> verbose.level helpful
> interactive is False
> platform is linux2
> Using fontManager instance from
> /home/cadsoft/.matplotlib/fontList.py3k.cache
> backend agg version v2.2
>
> Thanks for all of your help.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Jorge Garcia <jgarc...@fiu.edu> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I was trying to test out the Python 3 development version with the first
>> > plot shown in the pyplot tutorial. Everything seems to work ok until I
>> go
>> >
>> > plt.show()
>> >
>> > at which point nothing happens, I don't see a plot. Python accepts the
>> > command and is waiting for a new command but I have no plot.
>>
>> Maybe you don't have a python-3 compatible gui library installed, in
>> which case your backend is defaulting to AGG, which cannot render a
>> window for you.
>>
>> > I've tried changing the backend in the matplotlibrc file to TkAgg, but I
>> > still get nothing, in fact now when I try to import matplotlib I get a
>> > traceback error that name -tkagg is not defined, seems like it might be
>> > something in the module.
>> >
>> > Can anyone lend a hand?
>>
>> Posting the exact traceback would help us help you. I'll hazard a
>> guess that you don't have the tk development packages installed, so
>> the tkagg backend could not be built when you installed matplotlib for
>> py3, and therefore tkagg cannot be selected as your backend.
>>
>> Darren
>>
>
>
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