backend for matplotlib on NAS Lou

?Jerzy,

It's physics - astrophysics. In any case, since it's a NASA system I
cannot load it up with a lot of software, though I did install the anaconda
distribution as I mentioned. The issue is that the anaconda system does not
include the toolkits needed to use the backends that display plots in a
separate window. These include pygtk, PyQt5, wxpython, etc. and need to be
installed for plotting via pyplot.show(). I could still use a jupyter
notebook?

?though for me that's less desirable.

Jon
?

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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 22:23:18 +0100
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Le 02/02/2018 ? 21:39, Slavin, Jonathan a ?crit?:

> Qt5Agg leads to an error from libpthread about the GLIBC version.? Qt4
> fails with "No module named PyQt4".? Anyway, does anyone have a
> solution to this?
>
> Of course, I could ask this of the NAS folks, but I thought it was
> likely that someone on this list had dealt with this problem.

Since you are a professional in astro-whatever, I *might* susepct that
you loaded in your computer a good deal of specific software.
I did that once, when I taught something the local folks name
"informatique g?ographique".? Not knowing what I would really use, I fed
the beast with at least 5 different GIS, and some other stuff, some of
which came with their private copies of QT and PyQT. And there were
conflicts...
A thorough cleaning, elimination of double packages, isolating the
environments, and ensuring that when I use Anaconda Matplotlib packages,
its support is searched for first, really helped, not only me and my
students, but some friends (local physicists) as well. No guarantee,
though...

Best regards

Jerzy Karczmarczuk

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Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 07:00:29 +0200
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Hi Paul,

Paul Hobson <pmhobson at gmail.com> writes:
>> In general, especially for library code, you should avoid relying on the
>> pyplot state machine.

OK, thanks. Eric said much the same in his reply.

Thanks for the example code, that helps. It seems like the recommended
overall approach is "if axes are provided, used them, else create new ones;
return the axes used".

For now we'll use the approach I've implemented, perhaps with Eric's
suggested improvement. I'll propose creating a new suite of plot
functions (there are several specialized plots we do: Bode, Nichols,
etc.) that adopt the no-state-machine approach.

Thanks, both to you and Eric.

Regards,

Rory

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Jonathan Slavin explains :

since it's a NASA system I cannot load it up with a lot of software,
though I did install the anaconda distribution as I mentioned. The
issue is that the anaconda system does not include the toolkits needed
to use the backends that display plots in a separate window.? These
include pygtk, PyQt5, wxpython, etc. and need to be installed for
plotting via pyplot.show()

Please, tell what is your platform, under which system. Which Python
version.
You seem not believing me that you may have conflicts between various QT
instances. Perhaps...? Verify *all* the occurrences of your libraries
susceptible of being used by the mpl backend variants. Use 'which',
'where', 'locate', etc., all that goes on your system.
First of all, you must ensure and be certain that you launch what you
think you do, and not some "parasites".
BTW. I didn't use "show()" for a long time, plt.plot(...) plots, and
that's it.

All the best

Jerzy

I would also unload all modules you have loaded, if Lou has a module system
installed. In the past I?ve found that the module system used on HPC
systems can defeat the rpath trickery that conda uses to associate an
extension module with a python package.

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On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 9:12 AM Jerzy Karczmarczuk < jerzy.karczmarczuk at unicaen.fr> wrote:

Jonathan Slavin explains :

> since it's a NASA system I cannot load it up with a lot of software,
> though I did install the anaconda distribution as I mentioned. The
> issue is that the anaconda system does not include the toolkits needed
> to use the backends that display plots in a separate window. These
> include pygtk, PyQt5, wxpython, etc. and need to be installed for
> plotting via pyplot.show()
Please, tell what is your platform, under which system. Which Python
version.
You seem not believing me that you may have conflicts between various QT
instances. Perhaps... Verify *all* the occurrences of your libraries
susceptible of being used by the mpl backend variants. Use 'which',
'where', 'locate', etc., all that goes on your system.
First of all, you must ensure and be certain that you launch what you
think you do, and not some "parasites".
BTW. I didn't use "show()" for a long time, plt.plot(...) plots, and
that's it.

All the best

Jerzy

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