thanks for all the help, it's working now. That wasn't even too bad.
FWIW, I did download the latest .matplotlibrc file off the web at :
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlibrc
It is currently out of date as it contains:
### IMAGES
image.aspect : free # free | preserve
thank
TkAgg... GTKAgg. What difference does a letter make.
That helped. I couldn't remember the windows backend.
I still have a problem, but now it's the same if I import either
matplotlib or pylab:
Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006
I have done a bunch of upgrading (python, scipy, numpy, ipython, matlotlib,
pyreadline, ctypes) and of course things are broken. Everything seems to be
ok except for matplotlib. I think it is a backend problem, but I am
nobody's expert on backends. I searched the archives for "gobject" but
didn
