error with ginput

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this seems to be because the default backend was set to something without a gui.
i set backend to WXAgg and it works now.

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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:44:41 -0800
From: Daniel Soto <danielrsoto@...287...>
Subject: [Matplotlib-users] error with ginput
To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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hello,

ginput isn't working for me right now but was when i was using 0.98.3.
running the script below gives me the following traceback.
anyone know what is going on?

thx,
drs

python -c "import matplotlib;print matplotlib.__version__"

0.98.5.2

./gaelInput.py

Please click
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./gaelInput.py", line 7, in <module>
    x = ginput(3)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/4.1.30101/lib/
python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 358, in ginput
    return gcf().ginput(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/4.1.30101/lib/
python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1073, in ginput
    show_clicks=show_clicks)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/4.1.30101/lib/
python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/blocking_input.py", line 258, in
__call__
    BlockingInput.__call__(self,n=n,timeout=timeout)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/4.1.30101/lib/
python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/blocking_input.py", line 96, in
__call__
    self.fig.show()
AttributeError: 'Figure' object has no attribute 'show'

# gaelInput.py
from pylab import arange, plot, sin, ginput, show
t = arange(10)
plot(t, sin(t))
print "Please click"
x = ginput(3)
print "clicked",x
show()