Re: [Matplotlib-users] non-interactive matplotlib use with no X-server

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Firing
John Kitchin wrote: > I am trying to use matplotlib to generate some figures non-interactively > via cron, but I can not seem to get matplotlib.figure to import without > a gtk error, even when I specify to use an image backend. The problem > seems to be related to trying to import gtk when no X se

[Matplotlib-users] non-interactive matplotlib use with no X-server

2008-01-07 Thread John Kitchin
I am trying to use matplotlib to generate some figures non-interactively via cron, but I can not seem to get matplotlib.figure to import without a gtk error, even when I specify to use an image backend. The problem seems to be related to trying to import gtk when no X server is present. The script

Re: [Matplotlib-users] are gmane posts making it to the list?

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Firing
Dan Christensen wrote: > I didn't get a response to the post below from 20 Dec 2007, and also > didn't get a response to posts I made earlier in 2007, so I thought > I'd check whether posts made via gmane make it to the list. I saw your message originally, but had neither immediate ideas nor time

[Matplotlib-users] are gmane posts making it to the list?

2008-01-07 Thread Dan Christensen
I didn't get a response to the post below from 20 Dec 2007, and also didn't get a response to posts I made earlier in 2007, so I thought I'd check whether posts made via gmane make it to the list. On a probably unrelated note, I checked the list archives at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/fo

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems building matplotlib on OSX Leopard

2008-01-07 Thread Travis Austin
In case anyone else runs into this issue, let me offer a few suggestions. First, and most importantly, make sure that you are using python from the directory /System/Library/Python.frameworks and not a third-party python from /Library/Python.frameworks. This was the key issue that for me fixed t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting Multiple Curves on Same Axes; Save as .jpg

2008-01-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, John Hunter wrote: > The function is document > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.pyplot.html#-hold and the > usage in the "Simple Plots" Section 3.1 of the User's Guide at > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users_guide_0.91.2svn.pdf . The hold > functionality is p

Re: [Matplotlib-users] namespace packages

2008-01-07 Thread Jeff Whitaker
John Hunter wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 2:15 PM, Jeff Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I think namespace packages were being used before, but were removed. I >> don't remember why. >> > > We removed the namespace packages support because we were using it > improperly. To do it corre

Re: [Matplotlib-users] namespace packages (was: Basemap installation question)

2008-01-07 Thread John Hunter
On Jan 7, 2008 2:15 PM, Jeff Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think namespace packages were being used before, but were removed. I > don't remember why. We removed the namespace packages support because we were using it improperly. To do it correctly would require moving all of the funct

[Matplotlib-users] namespace packages (was: Basemap installation question)

2008-01-07 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Fought, Richard wrote: >>> Hi Jeff, >>> >>> Thanks for your response. I might be able to upgrade my prototype >>> machine to Python 2.4, but I'm not sure about my customer's box. >>> >>> Here is the listing from >>> >>> >> python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib-0.91.1_r0-py2.3-linux-i686.egg/m

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap installation question

2008-01-07 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Fought, Richard wrote: > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Jeff Whitaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 1:26 PM >> To: Fought, Richard >> Cc: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap installation question >> >> Fou

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting Multiple Curves on Same Axes; Save as .jpg

2008-01-07 Thread John Hunter
On Jan 7, 2008 1:43 PM, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Darren Dale wrote: > > > you can call hold(True) so each call to plot() adds a new curve to the axes. > > Darren, > >Excellent! Where is this documented, please? I did not see it when I > looked in the docs.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting Multiple Curves on Same Axes; Save as .jpg

2008-01-07 Thread Darren Dale
On Monday 07 January 2008 04:43:26 pm Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Darren Dale wrote: > > you can call hold(True) so each call to plot() adds a new curve to the > > axes. > > Darren, > >Excellent! Where is this documented, please? I did not see it when I > looked in the docs. See

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting Multiple Curves on Same Axes; Save as .jpg

2008-01-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Darren Dale wrote: > you can call hold(True) so each call to plot() adds a new curve to the axes. Darren, Excellent! Where is this documented, please? I did not see it when I looked in the docs. > Agg does not produce jpg. Can you live with a png? png are not lossy and >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib installation problem

2008-01-07 Thread jdawe
Eric Firing wrote: > thread is a standard python module, part of the basic python distribution. > I don't know why it is not being found. If you start python on a command > line, can you import thread? No, I can't. Apparently whoever installed this version of python (it's on a cluster I've got

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting Multiple Curves on Same Axes; Save as .jpg

2008-01-07 Thread Darren Dale
On Monday 07 January 2008 03:05:30 pm Rich Shepard wrote: >I've looked at all the docs I can find on the matplotlib web site > without finding the answers to two questions. Pointers to references are > greatly appreciated. > >1) I want to plot a series of curves on the same set of axes. Fo

[Matplotlib-users] Plotting Multiple Curves on Same Axes; Save as .jpg

2008-01-07 Thread Rich Shepard
I've looked at all the docs I can find on the matplotlib web site without finding the answers to two questions. Pointers to references are greatly appreciated. 1) I want to plot a series of curves on the same set of axes. For example, shoulder- and trapezoidal curves: ___

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap installation question

2008-01-07 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Fought, Richard wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up matplotlib with basemap on CentOS 4.6 with python > 2.3.4 > > I installed setuptools 0.6c7, then numpy 1.0.4, then matplotlib > 0.91.1_r0, then basemap 0.9.9 (building and installing the GEOS library > from source). When I try to run the ex

[Matplotlib-users] ANN: matplotlib 0.91.2

2008-01-07 Thread John Hunter
We have uploaded source and binary releases of matplotlib-0.91.2 to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&package_id=82474&release_id=566411. Thanks to Charlie Moad for doing the release. This is a bugfix release and includes several important fixes listed below. 2008-01-06

[Matplotlib-users] Basemap installation question

2008-01-07 Thread Fought, Richard
Hi all, I'm trying to set up matplotlib with basemap on CentOS 4.6 with python 2.3.4 I installed setuptools 0.6c7, then numpy 1.0.4, then matplotlib 0.91.1_r0, then basemap 0.9.9 (building and installing the GEOS library from source). When I try to run the example simpletest.py script, I get the