Re: imshow keeps crashhing

2016-01-06 Thread darren . mcaffee
Hi John, I am on a mac and have set the following: SCIPY_PIL_IMAGE_VIEWER=/Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview And when using imshow(), sure enough Preview attempts to open the fie, but it throws the following error: The file "tmp1zuvo7wn.png" couldn't be opened because you don't h

Re: imshow keeps crashhing

2016-01-06 Thread darren . mcaffee
Thanks for the quick reply! So scipy is making temporary files in /private/vars/folders/w4// 1. When in the correct folder within Terminal, on the command line I can do: open And it will open it in Preivew. 2. However, when opening Preview first, it is impossible (for me) to navigate to

Re: imshow keeps crashhing

2016-01-06 Thread darren . mcaffee
Thanks William and John, So the full path that scipy is using is: /private/var/folders/w4/wrnzszgd41d7064lx64nc10hgn/T/ I can't recall specifically adding the /var directory under /private. William - do you know how I can make scipy write temporary files in a non SIP folder? Thanks so muc

Re: imshow keeps crashhing

2016-01-06 Thread darren . mcaffee
Sorry you were right the path is in: /vars/folders not /private/var/folders. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: imshow keeps crashhing

2016-01-07 Thread darren . mcaffee
I think I figured out the real problem, you can see my post here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34645512/scipy-imshow-conflict-with-el-capitan-sip-and-var-folders/34646093#34646093 Thanks again for helping to guide me in the right direction. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho