I think the Figure you create may be not registered in the pylab
framework, and indeed I think this is not a bug. The --pylab switch
tries to obtain the active figure, but because there is no active
pyplot-Figure, it gets None from get_active() in your traceback. Then
it fails.
I think --pylab i
The following works without the --pylab switch but not with it. The error I
get is some how related to a call to get the active figure which returns
None.
C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\mpl_toolkits\basemap\__init__.pyc in
set_axes_limi
ts(self, ax)
2531 if is_interactive():
2532
