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One workaround is to try converting it to a PIL image first.

For whatever reason, imshow chokes on large arrays, but handles PIL images
of the same array just fine.

However, you'll need to set the colormap and such through PIL, which can be
a bit frustrating if you're unfamiliar with it.  Also, you'll quite likely
need to rescale your data if it's a float.

Hope that points you in the right direction, anyway....
-Joe

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Massimo Di Stefano <mas...@gm...
> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> i need to work with a relative large images "60 mb" (single band geotiff
> file)
> i store it in python as a numpy array using python-gdal,
> the array dinension is (7173 X 7924) single band image,
> but tring to display it with matshow/imageshow
> or other matplotlib functions i have that python freeze itself and is not
> able to load the image.
>
> if i use a subset of the image, i 'm able to display it
> or at least i hade to reduce its resolution using hacks like :
>
> reduced_array = array[::3,::3]
>
> i don't need full resolution dataset when the image is displaied with a
> full "zoom out"
> so the reduction " reduced_array = array[::3,::3] "  is good to show the
> complete image
> but when i zoom in the image i obviously lost data (less resolution)
>
> what do you use to display large dataset ?
>
> i'm thinking  about a "piramid" with multy array based on the different
> zoom levels
> .. but maybe this idea is not so cool.
> someone already has developed similar code ?
>
> thanks to All for any suggestion!
>
> Regards,
>
> Massimo
>
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On Miércoles 09 Junio 2010 3:28:57 PM usted escribió:
> Hi Vladimir,
> 
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Vladimir Rodriguez
> 
> <vla...@re...> wrote:
> > I am a new user and I need to make a GUI with QT4 in which you can plot,
> > just like using Matlab's GUIDE. Someone can send me a littel example (or
> > tutorial) for doing this.
> 
> Check out
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/user_interfaces/embedding_in_qt
> 4.html .

Thank you very much, this is exactly what I was looking for.

Some success!

I think my lack of understanding of how virtualenv (and dist- vs
site-packages) actually works is to blame...  The  "--no-site-packages" flag
does what it says on the tin and the dist-packages are available whether or
not this option is used....

Hence, no need (in my case) to build matplotlib in the virtualenv ...





On 9 June 2010 19:06, Robert Sudwarts <rob...@gm...> wrote:

> Thanks to both of you for your replies.
>
> I should have included the info that I've tried to build matplotlib using
> virtualenv with the --no-site-packages option.
>
> ... And in the meantime, I have an existing (and working) build, courtesy
> of the Ubuntu package manager.
>
> Seeing as the package manager version is working, I'm going to scrub
> everything that I currently have (including any build directories which have
> been created along the way) and start from scratch... I'll let you know if
> that works!!
>
> Thanks again,
> Rob
>
>
>
>
>
> On 9 June 2010 18:26, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
>
>> I don't know if this is the same issue that I had once, but I will just
>> throw it out there.  Once I compiled matplotlib myself before
>> double-checking that I had all the needed development files and so the build
>> process didn't produce all the files for tkagg and used GTKAgg instead.  I
>> had to get all the needed development packages and completely clean out my
>> build directory and rebuild matplotlib before it would work properly.
>>
>> Ben Root
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Robert Sudwarts <
>> rob...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've installed matplotlib in a virtual environment but am having a
>>> problem with generating a plot.
>>> I've tried to run a "simple_plot.py" both as a script and from within the
>>> ipython/python shell.
>>>
>>> I've changed the backend in
>>> virtualenvs/.../lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlig/mpl-data/matplotlibrc
>>> to: "backend  : TkAgg"
>>>
>>> from the within the virtualenv (regular python) shell I can:
>>> >>> import _tkinter
>>> >>> import Tkinter
>>> >>> Tkinter._test()
>>> (and the test window opens as expected)
>>>
>>> My virtualenv sys.path includes:
>>> "/home/virtualenvs/.../lib/python2.6/lib-tk'
>>>
>>> When I try to use ipython -pylab (or run a script) I'm getting an error:
>>>
>>>      .... import _tkagg
>>> ImportError: No module named _tkagg
>>>
>>> I'm assuming that there's a relatively simple fix for this related to the
>>> "matplotlibrc" backend but can't for the life of me work out how to get it
>>> fixed.   I'd be grateful for any help.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>

Hi All,

i need to work with a relative large images "60 mb" (single band geotiff file)
i store it in python as a numpy array using python-gdal, 
the array dinension is (7173 X 7924) single band image,
but tring to display it with matshow/imageshow
or other matplotlib functions i have that python freeze itself and is not able to load the image.

if i use a subset of the image, i 'm able to display it
or at least i hade to reduce its resolution using hacks like :

reduced_array = array[::3,::3]

i don't need full resolution dataset when the image is displaied with a full "zoom out"
so the reduction " reduced_array = array[::3,::3] "  is good to show the complete image
but when i zoom in the image i obviously lost data (less resolution)

what do you use to display large dataset ?

i'm thinking  about a "piramid" with multy array based on the different zoom levels
.. but maybe this idea is not so cool.
someone already has developed similar code ?

thanks to All for any suggestion!

Regards,

Massimo

What version of matplotlib are you using?
With 0.99.1.1 (and likely later) and also with the svn version, using
the bbox_inches="tight" actually produces an output with too small
margin.
With the svn version, following code should generate an output with an
adequate margin.

Otherwise, you cannot rely on bbox_inches features. Instead, you have
to manually adjust the size of the figure (and subplots_adjust).

Regards,

-JJ


   t1=ax.text(0.5, -0.15, 'Longitude', transform=ax.transAxes,
ha='center', va='center')
   t2=ax.text(-0.1, 0.5, 'Latitude', transform=ax.transAxes, ha=
'center', va='center', rotation='vertical')
   #ax.set_title("Sign.Different: GSPW2 - Princeton")
   fig.savefig('test.png', dpi=300, bbox_inches='tight',
bbox_extra_artists=[t1, t2])



On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:47 PM, mdekauwe <mde...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> when I make plots with the Basemap package I seem to be getting a large
> amount of white space at the top and bottom of the plot, even if I use the
> option bbox_inches='tight'. Does anyone know how I can stop this happening?
>
> Example image...
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p28824528/diffmap_JULES_DJF_snowFrac.GSWP2_vs_SSMI.jpg
>
> What I am currently doing...
>
> def makeMap(image, ofname, imageMin, imageMax, ticks):
>    """ dump out the array as a nice map... """
>    fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6))
>    m = Basemap(projection='cyl', llcrnrlon=-179.5, llcrnrlat=-60.0, \
>                        urcrnrlon=179.5, urcrnrlat=89.5, resolution='c')
>    # add an axes, leaving room for colorbar on the right.
>    ax = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.7, 0.7])
>    m.ax = ax
>    colourmap = plt.cm.RdYlBu
>    colourmap.set_bad('w', 1.0)
>    im = m.imshow(image, colourmap, colors.Normalize(vmin=imageMin,
> vmax=imageMax, clip=False),\
>                           interpolation='nearest')
>    pos = ax.get_position()
>    l, b, w, h = pos.bounds
>    cax = plt.axes([l + w + 0.045, b, 0.05, h])
>    norm = colors.BoundaryNorm(ticks, colourmap.N)
>    cbar = mpl.colorbar.ColorbarBase(cax, cmap=colourmap, norm=norm,
> ticks=ticks)
>    #cbar = plt.colorbar(im, cax=cax)
>    # xlabel and ylabel were overwriting the tick labels so i need to move
> them
>    # transAxes set the position from the bottom left of the axes (1,1 would
> be the top right)
>    ax.text(0.5, -0.15, 'Longitude', transform=ax.transAxes, ha='center',
> va='center')
>    ax.text(-0.1, 0.5, 'Latitude', transform=ax.transAxes, ha= 'center',
> va='center', rotation='vertical')
>    #ax.set_title("Sign.Different: GSPW2 - Princeton")
>    m.drawcoastlines(linewidth=0.2, color='k')
>    m.drawcountries(linewidth=0.1, color='k')
>    #m.drawrivers()
>    m.drawparallels(np.array([-90.0, -60.0, -30.0, 0.0, 30.0, 60.0, 90.0]),
> labels=[1,0,0,1],\
>                           fontsize=10, rotation=20)
>    m.drawmeridians(np.array([-180.0, -120.0, -60.0, 0.0, 60.0, 120.0,
> 180.0]), labels=[0,0,0,1], \
>                            fontsize=10, rotation=20)
>    fig.savefig(ofname + '.png', dpi=300, bbox_inches='tight')
>    # for LaTeX doc...
>    fig.savefig(os.path.join("/users/eow/mgdk/doc/snowy_notes/figures/",
> (ofname + ".eps")), dpi=300,\
>                   bbox_inches='tight')
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Martin
> --
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On 6/9/2010 9:12 AM, Wal?ria Antunes David wrote:
> Is there a way to plot my functions in the graph so that one can to
> visualize the difference between them.

Did you try the example I posted?
Why is it not adequate?

Alan Isaac


Hello,

Alan Isaac,

Sure, i tried your example, but really i don't was understanding with my
graph, what was happening to my graph. So, i talked with my boss and he
explained that was problem of scale.
I think i resolved my problem, if i get lost i write again for you.....ok?

Now, i using your example, is adequate for me.

thank you very much

and sorry, i'm brazilian and i'm studying english and it is not very
good......



On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Waléria Antunes David <
wal...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello...
>
> Benjamin,
>
> I made a correction in my functions, i added parentheses for the
> denominator in the functions, saw the images in the attached:
>
> two_functions.jpg
> result in graph = images_.png
> output values = values of the first function and values of the second
> function
>
> Is there a way to plot my functions in the graph so that one can to
> visualize the difference between them.
>
> This is correct my functions?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
>
>> Waléria,
>>
>> I repeat, you need to add parentheses for the denominator of that quantity
>> in order to match what you wrote out on paper.  You are missing a set of
>> parentheses that is causing (3e14**2) to be *multiplied* rather than
>> divided.  This explains the huge values you are getting.
>>
>> Ben Root
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Waléria Antunes David <
>> wal...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>> no, I think, did not understand my functions.....see....i made a change
>>> my second function in the attached.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think I found your errors.
>>>>
>>>> First, you are correct, the scientific notation in python is as you
>>>> understand, there is nothing wrong with that.
>>>>
>>>> Instead, you have a problem with order of operations.  In the last
>>>> quantity, you have "((x**2)/4*(1e4**2)*(3e14**2))"
>>>> According to the equation that you wrote out in the attached image, you
>>>> need: "((x**2)/*(*4*(*2*e4**2)*(3e14**2))*)*"
>>>> Note that you needed parentheses for the entire denominator.  Also, the
>>>> 1e4**2 should have been 2e4**2.
>>>>
>>>> This gives me values between 4.3125e-48 and 5.5359e-48.
>>>>
>>>> Ben Root
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Waléria Antunes David <
>>>> wal...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I understand what you are saying, but my functions are these, attached.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Scientific notation in Python is not so?
>>>>>
>>>>> *Math *              *Python*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Pinc = 10-6      Pinc = 1e-6
>>>>>
>>>>> 3,0x1014        3e14
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Then, changing my functions of the images attached for python is as bellow:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> y1 = -108*(x**2)/(3e14**2)
>>>>>
>>>>> y2 = 1*((1.38e-23*(1e0+4)/1e-6)*((x**2)/4*(1e4**2)*(3e14**2))))
>>>>>
>>>>> Is not it?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Gökhan Sever <gok...@gm...>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Waléria Antunes David <
>>>>>> wal...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Hello!!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My name is Waleria. I work at INPE in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil.
>>>>>>> And I'd like to make a question. I'm in trouble to generate a two functions
>>>>>>> graph.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have a problem to generate a graph of the two functions. I have
>>>>>>> this functions, is bellow:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *y1 = -108*(x**2)/(3e14**2)*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *y2 = 1*((1.38e-23*(1e0+4)/1e-6)*((x**2)/4*(1e4**2)*(3e14**2))))*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You might need to check your y2. You are mixing integers and floats
>>>>>> which possible have resulted with some rounding errors. I get e+30 when I
>>>>>> assert the terms as floats in y2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For the plotting: y1 is around -e-20 whereas y2 goes up to e+30. You
>>>>>> can't see the trend easily on one axes even if you could scale
>>>>>> them logarithmically (hint logarithm is only defined for positive numbers).
>>>>>> You can make a positive assumption for the y1 and plot them on one y-axes
>>>>>>
>>>>>> yscale('log')
>>>>>> axis(ymin=1e+20, ymax=1e+30)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Still this won't let you see the functions trends that you are looking
>>>>>> to see.  I would suggest you to use multipe figures or investing a bit more
>>>>>> time to use parasite axes example of JJ.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Gökhan
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>

Thanks to both of you for your replies.

I should have included the info that I've tried to build matplotlib using
virtualenv with the --no-site-packages option.

... And in the meantime, I have an existing (and working) build, courtesy of
the Ubuntu package manager.

Seeing as the package manager version is working, I'm going to scrub
everything that I currently have (including any build directories which have
been created along the way) and start from scratch... I'll let you know if
that works!!

Thanks again,
Rob





On 9 June 2010 18:26, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

> I don't know if this is the same issue that I had once, but I will just
> throw it out there.  Once I compiled matplotlib myself before
> double-checking that I had all the needed development files and so the build
> process didn't produce all the files for tkagg and used GTKAgg instead.  I
> had to get all the needed development packages and completely clean out my
> build directory and rebuild matplotlib before it would work properly.
>
> Ben Root
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Robert Sudwarts <rob...@gm...
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've installed matplotlib in a virtual environment but am having a problem
>> with generating a plot.
>> I've tried to run a "simple_plot.py" both as a script and from within the
>> ipython/python shell.
>>
>> I've changed the backend in
>> virtualenvs/.../lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlig/mpl-data/matplotlibrc
>> to: "backend  : TkAgg"
>>
>> from the within the virtualenv (regular python) shell I can:
>> >>> import _tkinter
>> >>> import Tkinter
>> >>> Tkinter._test()
>> (and the test window opens as expected)
>>
>> My virtualenv sys.path includes:
>> "/home/virtualenvs/.../lib/python2.6/lib-tk'
>>
>> When I try to use ipython -pylab (or run a script) I'm getting an error:
>>
>>      .... import _tkagg
>> ImportError: No module named _tkagg
>>
>> I'm assuming that there's a relatively simple fix for this related to the
>> "matplotlibrc" backend but can't for the life of me work out how to get it
>> fixed.   I'd be grateful for any help.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Rob
>>
>>
>>
>>
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On 06/08/2010 11:07 PM, Matthias Michler wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:00:31 am Eric Firing wrote:
>> On 06/08/2010 10:48 PM, Matthias Michler wrote:
>>> On Friday, April 23, 2010 11:08:50 am Matthias Michler wrote:
>>>> Hello list, Hello developers,
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to summarize my discussion with Gökhan ("Turning off minor
>>>> grids on log scaled plot") in the last days and propose two patches.
>>>>
>>>> The first patch adds the keyword argument 'which' from the axis.grid to
>>>> the method 'grid' of the Axes
>>>> (axes_grid_for_major_and_minor_ticks.patch). This allows to change the
>>>> drawing of grid lines for x- and y-axis at the same time.
>>>>
>>>> Furthemore Gökhan proposed to toggle *all* (namely major and minor tick)
>>>> grid lines after pressing the key 'g'. Therefore the call
>>>> event.inaxes.grid(), which toggles only the (default) major tick grid
>>>> lines, is replaced by event.inaxes.grid(which='majorminor') (see
>>>> toggling_all_tick_grid_lines.patch).
>>>> This yields the expected behavior if e.g. all (major and minor) tick
>>>> grid lines are shown, because than toggling the grid means to remove
>>>> all grid lines. But to be honest I'm not sure the latter is the
>>>> intended behavior in all cases. For instance in the case of shown major
>>>> tick lines toggling all means turning off major tick lines and turning
>>>> on minor tick lines by pressing 'g'. This sounds a little bit crazy to
>>>> me, although that's what toggling is about.
>>
>> I think that behavior would indeed drive the user crazy, so I would not
>> want to commit a patch that does that.
>>
>> Eric
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> thanks a lot for your comment. What do you think about the first part namely
> adding the kwarg 'which' from the axis method to the Axes method grid?

I went ahead and did it in 8402--check to see that this is what you had 
in mind.  The which kwarg can be 'both', 'minor', or 'major'.

Eric

>
> Kind regards,
> Matthias
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I don't know if this is the same issue that I had once, but I will just
throw it out there.  Once I compiled matplotlib myself before
double-checking that I had all the needed development files and so the build
process didn't produce all the files for tkagg and used GTKAgg instead.  I
had to get all the needed development packages and completely clean out my
build directory and rebuild matplotlib before it would work properly.

Ben Root

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Robert Sudwarts
<rob...@gm...>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've installed matplotlib in a virtual environment but am having a problem
> with generating a plot.
> I've tried to run a "simple_plot.py" both as a script and from within the
> ipython/python shell.
>
> I've changed the backend in
> virtualenvs/.../lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlig/mpl-data/matplotlibrc
> to: "backend  : TkAgg"
>
> from the within the virtualenv (regular python) shell I can:
> >>> import _tkinter
> >>> import Tkinter
> >>> Tkinter._test()
> (and the test window opens as expected)
>
> My virtualenv sys.path includes:
> "/home/virtualenvs/.../lib/python2.6/lib-tk'
>
> When I try to use ipython -pylab (or run a script) I'm getting an error:
>
>      .... import _tkagg
> ImportError: No module named _tkagg
>
> I'm assuming that there's a relatively simple fix for this related to the
> "matplotlibrc" backend but can't for the life of me work out how to get it
> fixed.   I'd be grateful for any help.
>
> Many thanks,
> Rob
>
>
>
>
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On 06/09/2010 10:47 AM, Robert Sudwarts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've installed matplotlib in a virtual environment but am having a 
> problem with generating a plot.
> I've tried to run a "simple_plot.py" both as a script and from within 
> the ipython/python shell.
>
> I've changed the backend in 
> virtualenvs/.../lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlig/mpl-data/matplotlibrc
> to: "backend  : TkAgg"
>
> from the within the virtualenv (regular python) shell I can:
> >>> import _tkinter
> >>> import Tkinter
> >>> Tkinter._test()
> (and the test window opens as expected)
>
> My virtualenv sys.path includes: 
> "/home/virtualenvs/.../lib/python2.6/lib-tk'
>
> When I try to use ipython -pylab (or run a script) I'm getting an error:
>
>      .... import _tkagg
> ImportError: No module named _tkagg
>
> I'm assuming that there's a relatively simple fix for this related to 
> the "matplotlibrc" backend but can't for the life of me work out how 
> to get it fixed.   I'd be grateful for any help.
>
The tkagg backend requires a compiled C extension (_tkagg) built when 
matplotlib is built.  If Tkinter was not available at the time 
matplotlib was built, then that extension may not exist.  If you can 
provide the output of a clean matplotlib build (i.e. remove the build 
directory first) that would be the best way to diagnose that problem.

Alternatively, you can switch to one of the other backends (which do not 
require a C extension as a bridge between matplotlib and GUI framework), 
such as GtkAgg, Qt4Agg, WxAgg etc.  See here to learn how to switch 
backends:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/installing_faq.html#what-is-a-backend

Mike

-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland, USA

On 6/9/2010 9:12 AM, Waléria Antunes David wrote:
> Is there a way to plot my functions in the graph so that one can to 
> visualize the difference between them.

Did you try the example I posted?
Why is it not adequate?

Alan Isaac

On 6/9/2010 8:50 AM, David Goldsmith wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Christoph Gohlke <cg...@uc...
> <mailto:cg...@uc...>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 6/8/2010 11:25 PM, David Goldsmith wrote:
>
>         On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Christoph Gohlke
>         <cg...@uc... <mailto:cg...@uc...>
>         <mailto:cg...@uc... <mailto:cg...@uc...>>> wrote:
>
>             On 6/8/2010 10:39 AM, John Hunter wrote:
>
>                 On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David Goldsmith
>         <d.l...@gm... <mailto:d.l...@gm...>
>         <mailto:d.l...@gm...
>         <mailto:d.l...@gm...>>>  wrote:
>
>                     On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:52 AM, David
>                     Goldsmith<d.l...@gm...
>         <mailto:d.l...@gm...>
>         <mailto:d.l...@gm... <mailto:d.l...@gm...>>>
>
>                     wrote:
>
>
>                         --------- Forwarded message ----------
>                         From: SourceForge.net<no...@so...
>         <mailto:no...@so...>
>         <mailto:no...@so... <mailto:no...@so...>>>
>                         Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:06 AM
>                         Subject: [ matplotlib-Bugs-2949906 ]
>                         finance.quotes_historical_yahoo
>                         raises ZeroDivisionError
>                         To: no...@so...
>         <mailto:no...@so...> <mailto:no...@so...
>         <mailto:no...@so...>>
>
>                         Bugs item #2949906, was opened at 2010-02-11 13:44
>                         Message generated for change (Comment added)
>         made by jdh2358
>                         You can respond by visiting:
>
>         https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=560720&aid=2949906&group_id=80706
>         <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=560720&aid=2949906&group_id=80706>
>         <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=560720&aid=2949906&group_id=80706
>         <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=560720&aid=2949906&group_id=80706>>
>
>                         Category: None
>                         Group: None
>                         Status: Closed
>                         Resolution: Duplicate
>                         Priority: 5
>                         Private: No
>                         Submitted By: David Goldsmith (olydlg)
>
>                             Assigned to: John Hunter (jdh2358)
>
>                         Summary: finance.quotes_historical_yahoo raises
>                         ZeroDivisionError
>
>                             Comment By: John Hunter (jdh2358)
>
>                         Date: 2010-06-07 08:06
>
>                         Message:
>                         This is fixed in svn 8392.  Look for it in the
>         upcoming
>                         release.  Please
>                         test from svn if you are able
>
>         http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/installing_faq.html#install-from-svn
>
>                         Thanks for the report,
>                         JDH
>
>                         Hi, John, etc.  I checked-out current revision
>         (8396 I
>                         believe), tried to
>                         build using python setup.py build, got error:
>         Unable to
>                         find vcvarsall.bat.
>                         Googled, determined that it was something I'm
>         supposed
>                         to get w/ a VC
>                         runtime, so grabbed the most recent version
>         (VC2010 or
>                         some such),
>                         installed, determined that I now have a
>         vcvarsall.bat
>                         and added it's
>                         location to my path, but am still getting the error.
>                           Any ideas?
>                         Windows 7 home prem. 64 bit.  Python 2.6.  Thanks!
>
>                         DG
>
>
>                     Oh, and the error happens after building
>         'matplotlib.ft2font' extension.
>                     Thanks again,
>
>
>                 Perhaps Christoph, who builds the win32 binaries, can
>         let you know
>                 what he does.  It's never as simple a python setup.py
>         install,
>                 though.
>                   You may want to look in the release/win32 directory at the
>                 README.txt
>                 and Makefile.
>
>
>             You need Visual Studio 2008 (MSVC9) to compile extensions
>         for Python
>         >=2.6 on Windows. "python setup.py build" works once you have built
>             the prerequisites. See
>         <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html>.  I link
>             against the static libraries of libpng, zlib, and freetype,
>
>
>         I don't already have those - where do I get them, please?
>
>
>     http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
>     http://freetype.sourceforge.net/
>     http://www.zlib.net/
>
>     It is best to build those libraries yourself, with exactly the same
>     compiler and runtime
>
>
> Is there a way to determine these if I used the build delivered via
> http://python.org/ftp/python/2.6.5/python-2.6.5.amd64.msi?

C:\Python26\python.exe
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79096, Mar 19 2010, 21:48:26) [MSC v.1500 32 bit 
(Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import platform
>>> platform.python_compiler()
'MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)'

This is the Visual Studio 2008 compiler. I think this is also mentioned 
in the release notes. The C runtime library is the default used by 
VS2008. You can verify the version with a tool like Dependency Walker. I 
just mentioned it because VS2008 SP1 comes with a new revision of the C 
runtime, which is not enabled by default - keep it that way. I use the 
/MD switch when compiling libraries for Python extensions.

-- 
Christoph

Hi,

I've installed matplotlib in a virtual environment but am having a problem
with generating a plot.
I've tried to run a "simple_plot.py" both as a script and from within the
ipython/python shell.

I've changed the backend in
virtualenvs/.../lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlig/mpl-data/matplotlibrc
to: "backend  : TkAgg"

from the within the virtualenv (regular python) shell I can:
>>> import _tkinter
>>> import Tkinter
>>> Tkinter._test()
(and the test window opens as expected)

My virtualenv sys.path includes:
"/home/virtualenvs/.../lib/python2.6/lib-tk'

When I try to use ipython -pylab (or run a script) I'm getting an error:

     .... import _tkagg
ImportError: No module named _tkagg

I'm assuming that there's a relatively simple fix for this related to the
"matplotlibrc" backend but can't for the life of me work out how to get it
fixed.   I'd be grateful for any help.

Many thanks,
Rob

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Jon Olav Vik <jo...@gm...> wrote:
> I'm trying to make a big plot with smaller insets. I would like to specify the
> new axis rectangle in terms of data coordinates from the original plot. This
> page
> mentions an .xy_tup() method of Transform objects:
> http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Transformations?highlight=%28xy_tup%29
> ...but I cannot seem to find it:
>

Yes, that is out of date.  Michael Droettboom did a significant
refactoring of maplotlib transformations years ago.  An up to date
tutorial is at

  http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/transforms_tutorial.html

The equivalent call is

  t.transform((x, y))

JDH

I'm trying to make a big plot with smaller insets. I would like to specify the 
new axis rectangle in terms of data coordinates from the original plot. This 
page 
mentions an .xy_tup() method of Transform objects:
http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Transformations?highlight=%28xy_tup%29
...but I cannot seem to find it:

from pylab import *
t = gca().transData

In [332]: t
Out[332]:
CompositeGenericTransform(TransformWrapper(BlendedAffine2D(
IdentityTransform(),IdentityTransform())), CompositeAffine2D(
BboxTransformFrom(TransformedBbox(Bbox(array(
[[ 0.,  0.], [ 1.,  1.]])), TransformWrapper(BlendedAffine2D(
IdentityTransform(),IdentityTransform())))), 
BboxTransformTo(TransformedBbox(Bbox(array([[ 0.125,  0.1  ],
       [ 0.9  ,  0.9  ]])), BboxTransformTo(TransformedBbox(Bbox(
array([[ 0.,  0.], [ 8.,  6.]])), Affine2D(array([[ 80.,   0.,   0.],
       [  0.,  80.,   0.],
       [  0.,   0.,   1.]]))))))))

In [333]: t.xy_tup
AttributeError: 'CompositeGenericTransform' object has no attribute 'xy_tup'

Has this feature been (re)moved, or am I missing something?

Thanking you in advance,
Jon Olav

For some reason, installing inside a virtualenv was the problem. I installed it using easy_install outside of the virtualenv and it worked fine. The virtualenv setup works on the other RHEL5 machine so I'm not sure why it didn't on this one.

thanks,

- dharhas

>>> Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> 6/8/2010 12:56 PM >>>
Then I haven't a clue.  Maybe someone else has some insight?

Ben Root

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Dharhas Pothina <
Dha...@tw...> wrote:

> Ben,
>
> The matplotlib on the other working machine is using python 2.6.4. On this
> machine I am using python 2.6.5.
>
> The default python on both machines in python 2.4 but I set up python 2.6
> as an alternate install in /opt/python26.
>
> - dharhas
>
>
> >>> Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> 6/7/2010 3:56 PM >>>
> Dharhas,
>
> Is it possible to find out which version of python was installed for your
> other RHEL5 machine?  I don't know if that makes a difference or not, but
> RHEL5 by default uses Python 2.4.
>
> Ben Root
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Dharhas Pothina <
> Dha...@tw...> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have Python 2.6 installed on RHEL5 (and Numpy 1.4.1) and am trying to
> > install matplotlib. Installation occurs without any error messages
> although
> > I do get a bunch of warnings at the end.
> >
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libtk8.4.so when searching
> for
> > -ltk8.4
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so when searching
> > for -ltcl8.4
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libfreetype.so when searching
> > for -lfreetype
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.so when searching for
> -lz
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.a when searching for -lz
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libm.so when searching for
> -lm
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libm.a when searching for -lm
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libm.so when searching for
> -lm
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libm.a when searching for -lm
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libpthread.so when searching
> > for -lpthread
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libpthread.a when searching
> for
> > -lpthread
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.so when searching for
> -lc
> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.a when searching for -lc
> >
> > When I try using matplotlib I get the following error:
> >
> > Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, May 18 2010, 11:20:57)
> > [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)] on linux2
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> > >>> plt.plot([1,0],[2,3])
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> >  File
> >
> "/home/swdata/.virtualenvs/web/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py",
> > line 2141, in plot
> >    ret = ax.plot(*args, **kwargs)
> >  File
> >
> "/home/swdata/.virtualenvs/web/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py",
> > line 3437, in plot
> >    self.autoscale_view(scalex=scalex, scaley=scaley)
> >  File
> >
> "/home/swdata/.virtualenvs/web/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py",
> > line 1624, in autoscale_view
> >    XL = self.xaxis.get_major_locator().view_limits(x0, x1)
> >  File
> >
> "/home/swdata/.virtualenvs/web/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/ticker.py",
> > line 1014, in view_limits
> >    return np.take(self.bin_boundaries(dmin, dmax), [0,-1])
> >  File
> >
> "/home/swdata/.virtualenvs/web/lib/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/core/fromnumeric.py",
> > line 103, in take
> >    return take(indices, axis, out, mode)
> > IndexError: index out of range for array
> >
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated. I've tried several versions of matplotlib.
> I
> > also was able to get it installed on a different RHEL5 machine a while
> back
> > and am not sure what is different about this machine.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > - dharhas
> >
> >
> >
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>
>

On 06/08/2010 10:48 PM, Matthias Michler wrote:
> On Friday, April 23, 2010 11:08:50 am Matthias Michler wrote:
>> Hello list, Hello developers,
>>
>> I'd like to summarize my discussion with Gökhan ("Turning off minor grids
>> on log scaled plot") in the last days and propose two patches.
>>
>> The first patch adds the keyword argument 'which' from the axis.grid to the
>> method 'grid' of the Axes (axes_grid_for_major_and_minor_ticks.patch). This
>> allows to change the drawing of grid lines for x- and y-axis at the same
>> time.
>>
>> Furthemore Gökhan proposed to toggle *all* (namely major and minor tick)
>> grid lines after pressing the key 'g'. Therefore the call
>> event.inaxes.grid(), which toggles only the (default) major tick grid
>> lines, is replaced by event.inaxes.grid(which='majorminor') (see
>> toggling_all_tick_grid_lines.patch).
>> This yields the expected behavior if e.g. all (major and minor) tick grid
>> lines are shown, because than toggling the grid means to remove all grid
>> lines. But to be honest I'm not sure the latter is the intended behavior in
>> all cases. For instance in the case of shown major tick lines toggling all
>> means turning off major tick lines and turning on minor tick lines by
>> pressing 'g'. This sounds a little bit crazy to me, although that's
>> what toggling is about.

I think that behavior would indeed drive the user crazy, so I would not 
want to commit a patch that does that.

Eric

>>
>> Thanks in advance for any comments.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Matthias
>
> Hello list,
>
> Does anybody think the proposed patches could be useful?
>
> If somebody would benefit from them I'd be happy to place an updated version of
> the patch(es) at the patch tracker.
>
> Thanks in advance for any comments.
>
> Kind regards,
> Matthias
>
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On 6/8/2010 11:25 PM, David Goldsmith wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Christoph Gohlke <cg...@uc...
> <mailto:cg...@uc...>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 6/8/2010 10:39 AM, John Hunter wrote:
>
>         On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David Goldsmith
>         <d.l...@gm... <mailto:d.l...@gm...>>  wrote:
>
>             On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:52 AM, David
>             Goldsmith<d.l...@gm...
>             <mailto:d.l...@gm...>>
>             wrote:
>
>
>                 --------- Forwarded message ----------
>                 From: SourceForge.net<no...@so...
>                 <mailto:no...@so...>>
>                 Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:06 AM
>                 Subject: [ matplotlib-Bugs-2949906 ]
>                 finance.quotes_historical_yahoo
>                 raises ZeroDivisionError
>                 To: no...@so... <mailto:no...@so...>
>
>                 Bugs item #2949906, was opened at 2010-02-11 13:44
>                 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jdh2358
>                 You can respond by visiting:
>
>                 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=560720&aid=2949906&group_id=80706
>                 <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=560720&aid=2949906&group_id=80706>
>
>                 Category: None
>                 Group: None
>                 Status: Closed
>                 Resolution: Duplicate
>                 Priority: 5
>                 Private: No
>                 Submitted By: David Goldsmith (olydlg)
>
>                     Assigned to: John Hunter (jdh2358)
>
>                 Summary: finance.quotes_historical_yahoo raises
>                 ZeroDivisionError
>
>                     Comment By: John Hunter (jdh2358)
>
>                 Date: 2010-06-07 08:06
>
>                 Message:
>                 This is fixed in svn 8392.  Look for it in the upcoming
>                 release.  Please
>                 test from svn if you are able
>
>                 http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/installing_faq.html#install-from-svn
>
>                 Thanks for the report,
>                 JDH
>
>                 Hi, John, etc.  I checked-out current revision (8396 I
>                 believe), tried to
>                 build using python setup.py build, got error: Unable to
>                 find vcvarsall.bat.
>                 Googled, determined that it was something I'm supposed
>                 to get w/ a VC
>                 runtime, so grabbed the most recent version (VC2010 or
>                 some such),
>                 installed, determined that I now have a vcvarsall.bat
>                 and added it's
>                 location to my path, but am still getting the error.
>                   Any ideas?
>                 Windows 7 home prem. 64 bit.  Python 2.6.  Thanks!
>
>                 DG
>
>
>             Oh, and the error happens after building
>             'matplotlib.ft2font' extension.
>             Thanks again,
>
>
>         Perhaps Christoph, who builds the win32 binaries, can let you know
>         what he does.  It's never as simple a python setup.py install,
>         though.
>           You may want to look in the release/win32 directory at the
>         README.txt
>         and Makefile.
>
>
>     You need Visual Studio 2008 (MSVC9) to compile extensions for Python
>      >=2.6 on Windows. "python setup.py build" works once you have built
>     the prerequisites. See
>     <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html>.  I link
>     against the static libraries of libpng, zlib, and freetype,
>
>
> I don't already have those - where do I get them, please?
>

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/
http://www.zlib.net/

It is best to build those libraries yourself, with exactly the same 
compiler and runtime that was used to build Python. Anything else is 
prone to crash.

--
Christoph

On 6/8/2010 11:10 PM, David Goldsmith wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Christoph Gohlke <cg...@uc...
> <mailto:cg...@uc...>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 6/8/2010 10:39 AM, John Hunter wrote:
>
>         On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David Goldsmith
>         <d.l...@gm... <mailto:d.l...@gm...>>  wrote:
>
>             On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:52 AM, David
>             Goldsmith<d.l...@gm...
>             <mailto:d.l...@gm...>>
>             wrote:
>
>
>                 --------- Forwarded message ----------
>                 From: SourceForge.net<no...@so...
>                 <mailto:no...@so...>>
>                 Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:06 AM
>                 Subject: [ matplotlib-Bugs-2949906 ]
>                 finance.quotes_historical_yahoo
>                 raises ZeroDivisionError
>                 To: no...@so... <mailto:no...@so...>
>
>                 Bugs item #2949906, was opened at 2010-02-11 13:44
>                 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jdh2358
>                 You can respond by visiting:
>
>                 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=560720&aid=2949906&group_id=80706
>                 <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=560720&aid=2949906&group_id=80706>
>
>                 Category: None
>                 Group: None
>                 Status: Closed
>                 Resolution: Duplicate
>                 Priority: 5
>                 Private: No
>                 Submitted By: David Goldsmith (olydlg)
>
>                     Assigned to: John Hunter (jdh2358)
>
>                 Summary: finance.quotes_historical_yahoo raises
>                 ZeroDivisionError
>
>                     Comment By: John Hunter (jdh2358)
>
>                 Date: 2010-06-07 08:06
>
>                 Message:
>                 This is fixed in svn 8392.  Look for it in the upcoming
>                 release.  Please
>                 test from svn if you are able
>
>                 http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/installing_faq.html#install-from-svn
>
>                 Thanks for the report,
>                 JDH
>
>                 Hi, John, etc.  I checked-out current revision (8396 I
>                 believe), tried to
>                 build using python setup.py build, got error: Unable to
>                 find vcvarsall.bat.
>                 Googled, determined that it was something I'm supposed
>                 to get w/ a VC
>                 runtime, so grabbed the most recent version (VC2010 or
>                 some such),
>                 installed, determined that I now have a vcvarsall.bat
>                 and added it's
>                 location to my path, but am still getting the error.
>                   Any ideas?
>                 Windows 7 home prem. 64 bit.  Python 2.6.  Thanks!
>
>                 DG
>
>
>             Oh, and the error happens after building
>             'matplotlib.ft2font' extension.
>             Thanks again,
>
>
>         Perhaps Christoph, who builds the win32 binaries, can let you know
>         what he does.  It's never as simple a python setup.py install,
>         though.
>           You may want to look in the release/win32 directory at the
>         README.txt
>         and Makefile.
>
>
>     You need Visual Studio 2008 (MSVC9) to compile extensions for Python
>      >=2.6 on Windows. "python setup.py build" works once you have built
>     the prerequisites. See
>     <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html>.
>
>
> Compared to what you've written here, those instructions are incomplete
> and/or out-of-date.
>
> DG
>
>       I link against the static libraries of libpng, zlib, and freetype,
>     compiled with the /MD switch. You may have to adjust your %LIB% and
>     %INCLUDE% environment variables and rename the lib files in order to
>     be found by the matplotlib build system.
>

The instructions on that page (reasonably) assume that the developer has 
a working Python build system and knows how to build the required 3rd 
party libraries. This is not matplotlib specific information and is 
better described in the documentation for Python and the libraries.

-- 
Christoph

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Christoph Gohlke <cg...@uc...> wrote:

>
> On 6/8/2010 10:39 AM, John Hunter wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David Goldsmith
>> <d.l...@gm...>  wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:52 AM, David Goldsmith<d.l...@gm...>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> --------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: SourceForge.net<no...@so...>
>>>> Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:06 AM
>>>> Subject: [ matplotlib-Bugs-2949906 ] finance.quotes_historical_yahoo
>>>> raises ZeroDivisionError
>>>> To: no...@so...
>>>>
>>>> Bugs item #2949906, was opened at 2010-02-11 13:44
>>>> Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jdh2358
>>>> You can respond by visiting:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=560720&aid=2949906&group_id=80706
>>>>
>>>> Category: None
>>>> Group: None
>>>> Status: Closed
>>>> Resolution: Duplicate
>>>> Priority: 5
>>>> Private: No
>>>> Submitted By: David Goldsmith (olydlg)
>>>>
>>>>> Assigned to: John Hunter (jdh2358)
>>>>>
>>>> Summary: finance.quotes_historical_yahoo raises ZeroDivisionError
>>>>
>>>>> Comment By: John Hunter (jdh2358)
>>>>>
>>>> Date: 2010-06-07 08:06
>>>>
>>>> Message:
>>>> This is fixed in svn 8392.  Look for it in the upcoming release.  Please
>>>> test from svn if you are able
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/installing_faq.html#install-from-svn
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the report,
>>>> JDH
>>>>
>>>> Hi, John, etc.  I checked-out current revision (8396 I believe), tried
>>>> to
>>>> build using python setup.py build, got error: Unable to find
>>>> vcvarsall.bat.
>>>> Googled, determined that it was something I'm supposed to get w/ a VC
>>>> runtime, so grabbed the most recent version (VC2010 or some such),
>>>> installed, determined that I now have a vcvarsall.bat and added it's
>>>> location to my path, but am still getting the error.  Any ideas?
>>>> Windows 7 home prem. 64 bit.  Python 2.6.  Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> DG
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh, and the error happens after building 'matplotlib.ft2font' extension.
>>> Thanks again,
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps Christoph, who builds the win32 binaries, can let you know
>> what he does.  It's never as simple a python setup.py install, though.
>>  You may want to look in the release/win32 directory at the README.txt
>> and Makefile.
>>
>>
> You need Visual Studio 2008 (MSVC9) to compile extensions for Python >=2.6
> on Windows. "python setup.py build" works once you have built the
> prerequisites. See <
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html>.  I link against
> the static libraries of libpng, zlib, and freetype,


I don't already have those - where do I get them, please?

Thanks!

DG


> compiled with the /MD switch. You may have to adjust your %LIB% and
> %INCLUDE% environment variables and rename the lib files in order to be
> found by the matplotlib build system.
>
> -- Christoph
>



-- 
Mathematician: noun, someone who disavows certainty when their uncertainty
set is non-empty, even if that set has measure zero.

Hope: noun, that delusive spirit which escaped Pandora's jar and, with her
lies, prevents mankind from committing a general suicide.  (As interpreted
by Robert Graves)

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:39 AM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David Goldsmith
> <d.l...@gm...> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:52 AM, David Goldsmith <d.l...@gm...
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> --------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...>
> >> Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:06 AM
> >> Subject: [ matplotlib-Bugs-2949906 ] finance.quotes_historical_yahoo
> >> raises ZeroDivisionError
> >> To: no...@so...
> >>
> >> Bugs item #2949906, was opened at 2010-02-11 13:44
> >> Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jdh2358
> >> You can respond by visiting:
> >>
> >>
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=560720&aid=2949906&group_id=80706
> >>
> >> Category: None
> >> Group: None
> >> Status: Closed
> >> Resolution: Duplicate
> >> Priority: 5
> >> Private: No
> >> Submitted By: David Goldsmith (olydlg)
> >> >Assigned to: John Hunter (jdh2358)
> >> Summary: finance.quotes_historical_yahoo raises ZeroDivisionError
> >> >Comment By: John Hunter (jdh2358)
> >> Date: 2010-06-07 08:06
> >>
> >> Message:
> >> This is fixed in svn 8392.  Look for it in the upcoming release.  Please
> >> test from svn if you are able
> >>
> >>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/installing_faq.html#install-from-svn
> >>
> >> Thanks for the report,
> >> JDH
> >>
> >> Hi, John, etc.  I checked-out current revision (8396 I believe), tried
> to
> >> build using python setup.py build, got error: Unable to find
> vcvarsall.bat.
> >> Googled, determined that it was something I'm supposed to get w/ a VC
> >> runtime, so grabbed the most recent version (VC2010 or some such),
> >> installed, determined that I now have a vcvarsall.bat and added it's
> >> location to my path, but am still getting the error.  Any ideas?
> >> Windows 7 home prem. 64 bit.  Python 2.6.  Thanks!
> >>
> >> DG
> >
> > Oh, and the error happens after building 'matplotlib.ft2font' extension.
> > Thanks again,
>
> Perhaps Christoph, who builds the win32 binaries, can let you know
> what he does.  It's never as simple a python setup.py install, though.
>  You may want to look in the release/win32 directory at the README.txt
> and Makefile.
>

That's for building Win32 binaries using Mingw.

DG

-- 
Mathematician: noun, someone who disavows certainty when their uncertainty
set is non-empty, even if that set has measure zero.

Hope: noun, that delusive spirit which escaped Pandora's jar and, with her
lies, prevents mankind from committing a general suicide.  (As interpreted
by Robert Graves)