Bizarre ipython -pylab bug. Help?

Hi folks,

this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/349634

is a really strange bug report we had from an ipython/pylab user on
Windows. I don't have the foggiest idea of how his opening of
matplotlib with Tk under Windows could open a calendar. I don't have
windows to test on, but if anyone here has seen this (the problem is
only seen with MPL) or has any clue, I'd be very grateful for ideas.

Cheers,

f

Recently I was trying to diagnose a segfault in Charlie’s win32 release candidate, and was using dependency walker to step through the _tkagg.pyd binary in the egg, and noticed all kinds of funky DLLs that based on their name I did not know why they were getting linked in (netapi32.dll, dnsapi32.dll, ieframe.dll). It looks like tk is bringing in a bunch of internet related stuff, and maybe one of these is doing something to launch the calendar. Never seen it before though…

JDH

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On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net@gmail.com> wrote:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/349634

is a really strange bug report we had from an ipython/pylab user on

Windows. I don’t have the foggiest idea of how his opening of

matplotlib with Tk under Windows could open a calendar. I don’t have

windows to test on, but if anyone here has seen this (the problem is

only seen with MPL) or has any clue, I’d be very grateful for ideas.

Mkay, thanks for the info. We'll leave this one filed away until some
win32 guru can come to the rescue...

Cheers,

f

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On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:03 AM, John Hunter <jdh2358@...149...> wrote:

Recently I was trying to diagnose a segfault in Charlie's win32 release
candidate, and was using dependency walker to step through the _tkagg.pyd
binary in the egg, and noticed all kinds of funky DLLs that based on their
name I did not know why they were getting linked in (netapi32.dll,
dnsapi32.dll, ieframe.dll). It looks like tk is bringing in a bunch of
internet related stuff, and maybe one of these is doing something to launch
the calendar. Never seen it before though...