I don't think you should mix pylab with matplotlib object API programming (or even the Tkinter event loop), though it may be safe if you are just displaying a plot in a standalone window. It takes a bit more work, but the object API lets you mix matplotlib plots freely with other Tkinter elements. maplotlib comes with good examples for using the object API with Tkinter.
If you decide it is safe to use pylab (instead of matplotlib's object API) then at least import pylab using: import pylab instead of from pylab import * to avoid namespace pollution. Using "from <foo> import *" is almost never a good idea and pylab is an especially large package. "from pylab import *" can be handy for creating graphs on the fly, but it was never intended for coding into scripts. -- Russell In article <aanlktinhgq29pmgj6df2csul5lyce_d5i7_edznms...@mail.gmail.com>, Alex Ter-Sarkissov <sigma.z.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, the problem might be bit silly... > > I'm desiging a GUI with Tkinter. Everythin worked (just couple buttons and > entries). Then I decided I need to import pylab: > > from pylab import * > > as a result, I'm getting an error message > > TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'text' > > which refers to the command line in def __init__(self) > > self.start_but=Button(root,text='Generate starting population') > > Like I said earlier, if I do not import pylab/matplotlib, no error messages > are received. > > cheers, > > Alex > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Tkinter-discuss mailing list > Tkinter-discuss@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss _______________________________________________ Tkinter-discuss mailing list Tkinter-discuss@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss
