Re: Re: pylab without X11

2008-10-02 Thread Willem-Jan Vriend
Thanks that worked ! I changed the backend to Agg. Allthough a problem there is that with the backend Agg you only can write the resulting image to a file or a file like object, it does not accept the (apache) request handler to write the file to. And I do not want to save the file to disk fir

Re: pylab without X11

2008-09-30 Thread marc
This may help ... or not ( 2nd part ) try not to do pylab.figure() in your script: pylab.plot, or pylab.imshow or whatever you want to use then savefig("myFigure.png")for example do not use show() in my case ( with the WXAgg backend ), it works, it generates the png file Marc Willem-

Re: pylab without X11

2008-09-30 Thread marc
This may help you ... or not You may have to change your backend : p13 of the matplotlib user guide: backends p17 how to change the backend in the matplotlibrc An example of matplotlibrc ( backend choice is at the beginning ): http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlibrc You may choose PS or

pylab without X11

2008-09-30 Thread Willem-Jan Vriend
I want to use pylab (matplotlib) on a machine without X11. I'm trying to generate onthefly graphics for an apache2 web service, so they do not have to be displayed on this machine ! When i do pylab.figure() I get the error TclError: couldn't connect to display ":0.0" I tried setting the