[matplotlib-devel] autofmt_xdate() broken for twinx()

2010-11-18 Thread Scott Sinclair
Hi, It seems that the autofmt_xdate helper method is broken when twinx is used. Consider the script below: - import datetime as dt import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.dates import date2num strt = dt.datetime(2000, 3, 15, 6)

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to decouple non-GUI stuff from the GUI?

2010-11-18 Thread Kynn Jones
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: As an additional note, if you are having difficulty compiling for MacOS X, > why not just ask for help with that? > Just to keep from ranting like a lunatic, basically. The experience was traumatic enough to shake my faith in Python altoget

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to decouple non-GUI stuff from the GUI?

2010-11-18 Thread Benjamin Root
I think we are more asking what tutorials have you read to help install matplotlib (some are better than others), as well as asking what was the source of your matplotlib installation. In addition, what version of MacOS X are you using and if you are using the built-in python interpreater or insta

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to decouple non-GUI stuff from the GUI?

2010-11-18 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Kynn Jones wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > >> As an additional note, if you are having difficulty compiling for MacOS X, >> why not just ask for help with that? > > Just to keep from ranting like a lunatic, basically.  The experien

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to decouple non-GUI stuff from the GUI?

2010-11-18 Thread Kynn Jones
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > I think we are more asking what tutorials have you read to help install > matplotlib (some are better than others) This was about 6 weeks ago, and I no longer remember the details. I do remember I read *a lot* of advice on installing matp

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to decouple non-GUI stuff from the GUI?

2010-11-18 Thread Christopher Barker
On 11/18/10 3:08 PM, John Hunter wrote: > Yes, installing these GUIs on OSX is a mess, particularly GTK. I only > recommend it for the very brave and foolish. yup -- though wxPython is trivial. Do make sure you're running the python.org python, though -- that's the one most likely to be support

Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to decouple non-GUI stuff from the GUI?

2010-11-18 Thread Michiel de Hoon
If you use the MacOSX backend, you won't need pygtk, pycairo, pyqt, pygobject, wx, tcl/tk, or anything they depend on, which was my main motivation for writing this backend. Other than the fact that the MacOSX backend currently does not support the non-interactive mode, it should work for you, d