[Matplotlib-users] Non-interactive use always tries to load wx

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I am trying to use matplotlib non-interactively but if I don't have DISPLAY set then wx barfs even though I have tried forcing the backend, etc.. eg.. [midget 16:51] ~/projects/beermon python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Aug 14 2007, 11:27:14) [GCC 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305] on freebsd6 Type

Re: [Matplotlib-users] CVS ?

2007-10-02 Thread Eric Firing
Wayne E. Harlan wrote: I have a serious problem with my Linux installation of matplotlib. It segfaults after a very brief display of a plot window outline (no actual plot within it). Before presenting the details of my problem, I would If a straightforward plotting sequence, such as one

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Non-interactive use always tries to load wx

2007-10-02 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to use matplotlib non-interactively but if I don't have DISPLAY set then wx barfs even though I have tried forcing the backend, etc.. This should probably be in the FAQ... you need to set the backend before you import pylab, because

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Non-interactive use always tries to load wx

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to use matplotlib non-interactively but if I don't have DISPLAY set then wx barfs even though I have tried forcing the backend, etc.. This should probably be in the FAQ... you need to set

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Non-interactive use always tries to load wx

2007-10-02 Thread Eric Firing
Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I am trying to use matplotlib non-interactively but if I don't have DISPLAY set then wx barfs even though I have tried forcing the backend, etc.. This is characteristic of matplotlib that I think should be considered a major bug, but I have not gotten around to

[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib.mlab.psd: zero padding + detrending

2007-10-02 Thread Lars Friedrich
Hello all, I am using matplotlib.mlab.psd to find power spectra of measured data. Sometimes it happens that I use the automatic zero padding (if the length of my measured data is smaller than nFFT) and detrending (pylab.detrend_mean) at the same time. I think that the psd-algorithm does the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plot array of arrays

2007-10-02 Thread David D Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan, Thanks for the help. This was a big clue. It turns out that what I thought was an array of arrays was actually a list of arrays. If my list was y, running plot(x,array(y).transpose()) solved the problem! Thanks for your help, Dave Alan G

Re: [Matplotlib-users] CVS ?

2007-10-02 Thread Wayne E. Harlan
Eric Firing wrote: If a straightforward plotting sequence, such as one of the examples, does this, then it sounds like a broken installation, not a matplotlib bug. Based on your comment above, here are my particulars: 1) System is LinuxFromScratch recently built from their SVN book: