[Matplotlib-users] disabling downloads during build process

A few of the users of our software want to compile the entire mess from source using non-standard compilers and/or options. We try to bundle all dependencies with the package we distribute but the current version of Matplotlib is attempting to download another half-dozen or so, which I'm pretty su

[Matplotlib-users] specifying path to libpng

Is there a way to force matplotlib to build (on Mac, 10.6, Xcode 3) against a specific, non-standard location of libpng? Right now it appears to be linking to /usr/X11/lib/libpng12.0.dylib, which is making it very difficult to install the resulting binaries on other Macs. I couldn't figure out a

[Matplotlib-users] font cache errors, again

I am still seeing the error below in matplotlib-1.1.0 - the bug occurs when the user installs our software to the directory "version1", uses that installation, then installs "version2" and removes "version1", which breaks matplotlib because (unlike any other Python module I've ever used) the absolu

[Matplotlib-users] weird axis tickmark format

I'm plotting values that cover a very small range with a relatively large base, e.g. 375.0001 375.00025 375.0002 ... In practice, the data series hovers at a single value for several hundred elements in a row, then fluctuates slightly. Initially matplotlib does what I expect, and the Y-axis tick

[Matplotlib-users] build problems

We started using Python 2.7.2 a week or two ago, and I'm now running into this problem when attempting to build matplotlib 1.0.1 on several of our machines: basedirlist is: [] BUILDING MATPLOTLIB matplotlib: 1

[Matplotlib-users] applying colormap to a line

I wanted to display a line plot with rainbow coloring based on the y-value, similar to what's possible for surface plots. However, the 'plot' method does not appear to accept a 'cmap' argument. The closest thing I was able to find was a recipe for different colored line segments on the SciPy exam

[Matplotlib-users] RuntimeError and fontCache

I updated the version of matplotlib distributed with our group's software to 1.0.0 a week and a half ago (we also use wxPython 2.8.11.0 and Python 2.7). Since then, multiple users (all on Mac, so far, although we also distribute a Linux version) have been reporting this error: RuntimeError : Coul

[Matplotlib-users] redrawing plot with transparent background in wx

I'm embedding a plot in a wxPython panel, and I'd like it to blend in as much as possible, i.e. the area outside the plot itself should be transparent. I can call figure.figurePatch.set_alpha(0.0) to do this under normal circumstances, but in this case I'm also trying to redraw the plot periodical