On 2012/10/17 6:13 PM, Michael Aye wrote:
> I am using matplotlib 1.1.0 that came with the current EPD, which in
> turn comes without pygtk.
>
> However, the linux system I am using this on (CentOS6) has pygtk installed:
>
> /usr/lib64/pygtk/2.0
>
> Is there any change I can marry those two? Currently, when I try to
> matplotlib.use('gtk')
> I get an error
> ImportError("Gtk* backend requires pygtk to be installed.")
>
> Or do I need to recompile it into this matplotlib?Yes, you need to recompile. It will need to compile _backend_gdk.c, which needs to be able to find pygtk.h. The plain (non-agg) gtk backend is basically unmaintained and its use is discouraged. Are you sure there isn't a reasonably easy way to do what you need with qt4agg, for example? How do you want to visualize your million points? Eric > > Thanks for your help! > > Michael > > PS.: The reason why I want to try GTK is actually that there are > reports of it being able to cope with 1 million data points, something > all other Agg-related backends can not do, apparently. (My linux is > server is definitely not the limit ;) > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
