Re: [Matplotlib-users] display GUI scientific notation

2007-02-20 Thread Eric Firing
Matthew Auger wrote: > Ah...right. That works well enough (I believe that I originally had > editted backend_bases to circumvent the format_coord call--clearly not > the best solution)! I don't know of a good reason to *not* use the axis > formatting, but perhaps an rcparam could control this?

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intermittent Matplotlib crash on OS X

2007-02-20 Thread Eric Firing
Anand Patil wrote: >> Anand Patil wrote: >> >> > Matplotlib occasionally crashes Python at the end of a long program on > my powerbook g4 running OS X 10.4. gdb output follows: > > Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. > Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Building on Kubuntu: No module named _ns_backend_agg

2007-02-20 Thread Gary Pajer
Solved. I had missed the default setting of Numerix to Numeric. Changed it to numpy, and everything is ok. On 2/20/07, Gary Pajer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [sorry if this appears more than once] > > On 2/19/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Gary, "_ns" is the numpy backend.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intermittent Matplotlib crash on OS X

2007-02-20 Thread Anand Patil
>Anand Patil wrote: > > Matplotlib occasionally crashes Python at the end of a long program on my powerbook g4 running OS X 10.4. gdb output follows: Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x0a68fe40 0x0

Re: [Matplotlib-users] display GUI scientific notation

2007-02-20 Thread Matthew Auger
Ah...right. That works well enough (I believe that I originally had editted backend_bases to circumvent the format_coord call--clearly not the best solution)! I don't know of a good reason to *not* use the axis formatting, but perhaps an rcparam could control this? Thanks for the help Eric! --

Re: [Matplotlib-users] display GUI scientific notation

2007-02-20 Thread Eric Firing
Matthew Auger wrote: > The GUI plots the x/y position of the cursor in data coordinates using > scientific notation including only three significant digits (ie > x=7.24e+03, y=20.2). The scientific notation is annoying but the lack of > significant digits (ie 7.2457e+03) makes it impossible to fu

Re: [Matplotlib-users] display GUI scientific notation

2007-02-20 Thread Matthew Auger
The GUI plots the x/y position of the cursor in data coordinates using scientific notation including only three significant digits (ie x=7.24e+03, y=20.2). The scientific notation is annoying but the lack of significant digits (ie 7.2457e+03) makes it impossible to fully use the GUI for interact

Re: [Matplotlib-users] display GUI scientific notation

2007-02-20 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 7:40:18 pm Matthew Auger wrote: > We are starting to use matplotlib to do some analysis of our data, but we > are hampered by the unfortunate choice of significant digits in the GUI. > I hacked the backends for 0.87.7 to display (many) more significant > digits and I was

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intermittent Matplotlib crash on OS X

2007-02-20 Thread Eric Firing
Anand Patil wrote: >>> Matplotlib occasionally crashes Python at the end of a long program on >>> my powerbook g4 running OS X 10.4. gdb output follows: >>> >>> Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. >>> Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x0a68fe40 >>> 0x002eae50 i

[Matplotlib-users] display GUI scientific notation

2007-02-20 Thread Matthew Auger
We are starting to use matplotlib to do some analysis of our data, but we are hampered by the unfortunate choice of significant digits in the GUI. I hacked the backends for 0.87.7 to display (many) more significant digits and I was wondering if anyone had any better suggestions (ie that I could

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: matplotlib-0.90.0

2007-02-20 Thread Russell E Owen
At 4:48 PM -0700 2007-02-20, Samuel M. Smith wrote: >On Feb 20, 2007, at 14:47 , Russell E Owen wrote: > >>> >>>In the past the distributions were a little more user friendly for >>>installing. >>>I know I can't complain too much since you are doing all the work. >>>Just wondering if I missed some

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: matplotlib-0.90.0

2007-02-20 Thread Samuel M. Smith
On Feb 20, 2007, at 14:47 , Russell E Owen wrote: >> >> In the past the distributions were a little more user friendly for >> installing. >> I know I can't complain too much since you are doing all the work. >> Just wondering if I missed something when I tried to install it. > > Oops, I just r

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intermittent Matplotlib crash on OS X

2007-02-20 Thread Anand Patil
>>Matplotlib occasionally crashes Python at the end of a long program on >>my powerbook g4 running OS X 10.4. gdb output follows: >> >>Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. >>Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x0a68fe40 >>0x002eae50 in visit_decref (op=0x28a1cb0,

[Matplotlib-users] broken download links

2007-02-20 Thread Russell E Owen
If I go to the matplotlib download page: then there is a table showing "matplotlib" and "matplotlib-toolkits". Clicking on "Download" or "matplotlib-0.90.0" results in a page with no files. On the other hand, clicking on "matplotlib"

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: matplotlib-0.90.0

2007-02-20 Thread Russell E Owen
At 2:33 PM -0700 2007-02-20, Samuel M. Smith wrote: >>>Shouldn't the version of wxPython also get included in the name along >>>with the python version and os version? >> >>That information is in the ReadMe file in the installer. > >I will try to remember to look there in the future to know which w

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: matplotlib-0.90.0

2007-02-20 Thread Samuel M. Smith
> >> Shouldn't the version of wxPython also get included in the name along >> with the python version and os version? > > That information is in the ReadMe file in the installer. I will try to remember to look there in the future to know which wx is supported, thanks. The matplotlib on sourcef

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Building on Kubuntu: No module named _ns_backend_agg

2007-02-20 Thread Gary Pajer
[sorry if this appears more than once] On 2/19/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Gary, "_ns" is the numpy backend. Do you have numpy installed? Is > it working? Are you compiling matplotlib from source? What version of > Ubuntu are you using (Dapper? Edgy?) Numpy 1.0.2.dev (v

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intermittent Matplotlib crash on OS X

2007-02-20 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anand Patil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Matplotlib occasionally crashes Python at the end of a long program on > my powerbook g4 running OS X 10.4. gdb output follows: > > Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. > Reason: KE

Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: matplotlib-0.90.0

2007-02-20 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Samuel M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> which versions of wxPython are supported? > > > > I haven't tried the new one, but the last release worked well with > > wxPython2.6.3, but had some issues with 2.8.* -- I don't think anyone > > has addressed

[Matplotlib-users] Intermittent Matplotlib crash on OS X

2007-02-20 Thread Anand Patil
Hi all, Matplotlib occasionally crashes Python at the end of a long program on my powerbook g4 running OS X 10.4. gdb output follows: Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x0a68fe40 0x002eae50 in visit_decref (op=0x28a1cb0, dat

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Building on Kubuntu: No module named _ns_backend_agg

2007-02-20 Thread Gary Pajer
On 2/20/07, Gary Pajer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/19/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Gary, "_ns" is the numpy backend. Do you have numpy installed? > > yes, from svn [...] > > Python 2.4.7 typo: 2.4.4 -

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Building on Kubuntu: No module named _ns_backend_agg

2007-02-20 Thread Gary Pajer
On 2/19/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Gary, "_ns" is the numpy backend. Do you have numpy installed? yes, from svn > Is it working? it seems to be. Nothing I use is broken. Everything I've tried works. >Are you compiling matplotlib from source? yes, version 0.90, the rel

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Documentation for 0.90

2007-02-20 Thread Edin Salkovic
Hi Damian, For the users_guide.tex see: http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/matplotlib/trunk/users_guide/users_guide.tex?view=log You can checkout the SVN dir where the users guide is located at: https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matplotlib/trunk/users_guide Best, Edin On 2/20/07, D

[Matplotlib-users] Documentation for 0.90

2007-02-20 Thread Damian McGuckin
Where can I find the master TeX document for 0.90? I'd like to make some corrections, and maybe add things. Thanks - Damian Pacific Engineering Systems International, 277-279 Broadway, Broadway NSW 2007 Ph:+61-2-8571-0847 .. Fx:+61-2-9692-9623 | unsolicited email not wanted here ! Views and opi