[Matplotlib-users] broken demo

I just had an epiphany and figured out what is causing this. It looks like that any example that uses the “if name == ‘main’ :” idiom is failing to produce an image. Some others that have the same issue are:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/api/sankey_demo.html
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/api/hinton_demo.html

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/api/logo2.html (it has a link, but no image on the page)
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/misc/multiprocess.html

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/arrow_demo.html

and many others (can be found by grepping for “main” in the examples folder).

On a local build of the docs from master, axes_grid has two demos that also fail to produce images for the docs. They look to be new demos.

I wonder if this is being caused (or at least the errors hidden by) the new multiprocessing approach for the doc-build. Anybody have any thoughts on how to deal with this? I consider this a release-stopper.

Ben Root

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On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.root@…854…> wrote:

On Sunday, June 26, 2011, Warren Weckesser > <warren.weckesser@…492…> wrote:

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.root@…553…> wrote:

On Sunday, June 26, 2011, Carl Karsten <carl@…978…> wrote:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/api/radar_chart.html

“Exception occurred rendering plot.”

Without more information, we can’t help you. What version of

matplotlib are you using? On what OS? How did you install it? Do the

tests pass? And which backend?

That error is what shows up on the web page when you follow the link.

Warren

Ah, indeed it is. I apologize for misunderstanding, what is odd is

that the demo didn’t work, but the mpl logo rendered fine.

Who was it that uploaded the recent rebuild of the docs?

Ben Root