Re: [Tutor] pylab Failure

2008-11-22 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Pylab runs fine under 2.5, and I've since moved there. Wayne Watson wrote: I copied the following code from a matplotlib tutorial, and it fails. I'm using python 2.4 on Win XP. It's matplotlib-0.98.3.win32-py2.4exe. With or without the finish function it fails in IDLE wit

Re: [Tutor] pylab Failure

2008-10-13 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Thanks for the tips, but I'm putting this aside for a week or so  to continue with the non-graphics side of the program. I'm guided here more by examining the meteor data that worrying about side issues with the program. I can provide satisfactory results without the plot,

Re: [Tutor] pylab Failure

2008-10-13 Thread Alan Gauld
"Wayne Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Yes (below), command lines are surprisingly baffling. I've used the Win Run cmd lines before, but once one gets into using them like DOS, it's a bit weird. For this kind of thing you want to eliminate as many variables as posssible so its best to just s

Re: [Tutor] pylab Failure

2008-10-12 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Kent Johnson wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What's more likely TO run python/Tkinter with graphics than IDLE? In this thread or an earlier one? pythonwin? See my previous suggestions.

Re: [Tutor] pylab Failure

2008-10-12 Thread Kent Johnson
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's more likely run python/Tkinter with graphics than IDLE? See my previous suggestions. > I'm looking at py2exe right now, but that seems useful for a completed > program. On that topic, I noticed that my Start->All Pr

Re: [Tutor] pylab Failure

2008-10-12 Thread Wayne Watson
Slight corrections--in red, caps. Wayne Watson wrote: What's more likely TO run python/Tkinter with graphics than IDLE? I'm looking at py2exe right now, but that seems useful for a completed program. On that topic, I noticed that my Start->All Progs menu item now, possibly it was th

Re: [Tutor] pylab Failure

2008-10-12 Thread Wayne Watson
What's more likely run python/Tkinter with graphics than IDLE? I'm looking at py2exe right now, but that seems useful for a completed program. On that topic, I noticed that my Start->All Progs menu item now, possibly it was there before I installed p2exe, a Python2.4 item show a  Command Line

Re: [Tutor] pylab Failure

2008-10-12 Thread Kent Johnson
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The terminal window flashed briefly, and apparently never got to the > finish() def, which should keep the window open, but long enough to see > there's nothing in it. The program came directly from the MatPlotLib web > page

Re: [Tutor] pylab Failure

2008-10-12 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html I ran it in IDLE debug and go this window at the same time as the Runtime Error msg window. Unfortunately, when I get to the place where the error occurs, I cannot ctrl-alt-print the debugger window. A bit before the failure, I did get this window. === It was

Re: [Tutor] pylab Failure

2008-10-12 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html The terminal window flashed briefly, and apparently never got to the finish() def, which should keep the window open, but long enough to see there's nothing in it. The program came directly from the MatPlotLib web page. Another one died in a similar way. I put finish() aft

Re: [Tutor] pylab Failure

2008-10-11 Thread Alan Gauld
"Wayne Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Here's the code. If I just execute it, the terminal window opens briefly and disappears. What happens if you execute it from a terminal window? That way any error messages will be visible. What happens if you ruin it from inside IDLE or Pythonwin? TH

[Tutor] pylab Failure

2008-10-11 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html I copied the following code from a matplotlib tutorial, and it fails. I'm using python 2.4 on Win XP. It's matplotlib-0.98.3.win32-py2.4exe. With or without the finish function it fails in IDLE with. Here's the code. If I just execute it, the terminal window opens brie