Re: IDLE python shell freezes after running show() of matplotlib

2009-11-09 Thread Michael
On Oct 28, 11:09 pm, Chris Colbert sccolb...@gmail.com wrote: This is a threading issue that is very common when using gui toolkits with the interactive interpreter. You're better off just using ipython, which already has builtin support for matplotlib when you start it via ipython -pylab

Re: IDLE python shell freezes after running show() of matplotlib

2009-10-28 Thread OKB (not okblacke)
Forrest Sheng Bao wrote: I am having a weird problem on IDLE. After I plot something using show () of matplotlib, the python shell prompt in IDLE just freezes that I cannot enter anything and there is no new prompt show up. I tried ctrl - C and it didn't work. I have to restart IDLE to use

Re: IDLE python shell freezes after running show() of matplotlib

2009-10-28 Thread Chris Colbert
This is a threading issue that is very common when using gui toolkits with the interactive interpreter. You're better off just using ipython, which already has builtin support for matplotlib when you start it via ipython -pylab On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:41 PM, OKB (not okblacke)

Re: IDLE python shell freezes after running show() of matplotlib

2009-10-27 Thread Donny
I have this problem as well. I'm on Windows XP (32-bit x86 processor) using Python 2.6.4 and matplotlib 0.99.1 (installed with matplotlib-0.99.1.win32-py2.6.exe). The IDLE version is 2.6.4. The difficulty occurs for me during the first example of the (official?) Pyplot tutorial at

IDLE python shell freezes after running show() of matplotlib

2009-10-24 Thread Forrest Sheng Bao
I am having a weird problem on IDLE. After I plot something using show () of matplotlib, the python shell prompt in IDLE just freezes that I cannot enter anything and there is no new prompt show up. I tried ctrl - C and it didn't work. I have to restart IDLE to use it again. My system is Ubuntu

Re: IDLE python shell freezes after running show() of matplotlib

2009-10-24 Thread Scott David Daniels
Forrest Sheng Bao wrote: I am having a weird problem on IDLE. After I plot something using show () of matplotlib, the python shell prompt in IDLE just freezes that I cannot enter anything and there is no new prompt show up. I tried ctrl - C and it didn't work. I have to restart IDLE to use it