plot window does not open

Hi all,
    it appears that i needed to recompile MatPlotLib after installing
the backend (WxPython, in my case).
    the basic plots appear now, it is time to solve new errors.
    thanks,
           ashish

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Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 00:13:06 +0530
From: "Ashish Asgekar" <ashish.asgekar@...287...>
Subject: [Matplotlib-users] plot window does not open
To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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Hello,
  I am running Python 2.5.2 on Fedora Core 7. recently removed
previous versions of Scipy and Numpy (installed previously using YUM),
and compiled and installed their latest versions using the source
code. i also installed MatPlotLib from source. their versions are
given below:

Python 2.5.2
Numpy 1.1.0
Scipy 0.6.0
MatPlotLib 0.98.3
WxPython

  I try simple plot commands as the ones below. however, no plot
window appears anywhere. i think i am doing something really silly
here, like not linking to backend (see the error message below). i
have looked at matplotlibrc file in my home area
~/matplotlib/.matplotlibrc

  plz suggest some remedy.

  thanks,
       ashish

--------------------------------------- code
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,2,3])
plt.ylabel('some numbers')
plt.show()
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------------------------------------------- response in Python

Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Nov 6 2007, 16:54:01)
[GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,2,3])

[<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0xa7ff2cc>]

plt.ylabel('some numbers')

<matplotlib.text.Text object at 0xa7d21ec>

plt.show()

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