Sorry Brenton, I meant for my reply to go to the entire list.
Anyway, in your response, I take it that you meant to say that the window
appears and disappears immediately. Yes?
What happens if you restart the Python interpreter and type the following?
>>> import matplotlib
>>> matplotlib.use('TkAgg')
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> plt.plot([1,2,3])
>>> plt.show()
Does my first example work fine in the IPython interpreter? (Sorry, I'm not
on my Windows machine right now, so I can't tell you if I'm seeing the same
problem.)
Ryan
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Brenton Horne <brentonhorn...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Yes, a popup window appears but it appears immediately after it appears.
>
> On 14/03/2015 10:03 PM, Ryan Nelson wrote:
>
> Brenton,
>
> Unfortunately, those particular examples are out of date. First of all,
> I would not recommend using pylab at all -- and I think that many other
> folks will give you the same advice. (For reasons that I can describe later
> if you are interested.)
>
> IPython is a much different beast than the vanilla Python interpreter,
> especially in how it handles GUI stuff. Maybe you could temporarily move
> the matplotlibrc file that you created, and try the following from a
> regular Python session:
> >>> import matplotlib
> >>> matplotlib.use('TkAgg')
> >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> >>> plt.ion()
> >>> plt.plot([1,2,3])
> The second line is telling MPL what backend to use. (You can set this in
> the rc file later, but let's make sure this isn't the problem for now.) The
> third line imports the pyplot module, which is recommended over pylab. The
> fourth line is turning on interactive plotting. Once you execute the plot
> command on the fifth line, a popup window should appear. Yes?
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:17 AM, Brenton Horne <brentonhorn...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Oh and I have made the mentioned customizations to matplotlibrc
>> (although the TkAgg line was already present). My python version is 2.7.9
>> and matplotlib version is 1.4.3.
>>
>> On 14/03/2015 7:14 PM, Brenton Horne wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am on Windows 7 64 bit SP1 and I installed matplotlib via wheels files
>> here http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#matplotlib but now
>> whenever I execute plotting commands from the python shell (e.g., the 'hi
>> mom' example here
>> http://matplotlib.org/1.4.3/users/shell.html?highlight=mailing%20list#other-python-interpreters)
>> it seems like as though some window is trying to pop up but nothing does.
>> Whereas if I try the the hist example here (
>> http://matplotlib.org/1.4.3/users/shell.html?highlight=mailing%20list#ipython-to-the-rescue)
>> in IPython I get a graph pop-up that seems fine.
>>
>> Thanks for your time,
>> Brenton
>>
>>
>>
>>
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