In revisiting an old project, I tried the example
> anim_tk.py. On two different WinXP machines, a "ghost"
> window appears (can see right through it) and the following:
> ------------------------------------
> C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\examples>python
> anim_tk.py elapsed 10.7944733008 Fatal Python error:
> PyEval_RestoreThread: NULL tstate
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it
> in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support
> team for more information.
> -------------------------------------
> please embarrass me by pointing out that I've forgotten to
> install something obvious.
I'll have to take a look at this next week since I don't have access
to a win32 platform right now. It seems to be running fine on linux.
> BTW, It's not possible to say thank you enough times.
> matplotlab/ipython/scipy is just a dream for scientific
> work. I also add Maxima and Vpython (and TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt)
> to my soup, fwiw.
Thanks, it's great to hear encouraging words. Fernando and I will be
meeting tonight with some of the numarray and scipy folks, and so
hopefully we can come up with some more fruitful areas to make this a
great platform.
Now if only people could learn spell matplotlib <wink>
JDH