John,
Typo got me TkAgg not TKAgg works. The plot worked as shown below. Thanks for your help I have run the example on page 7 of the users_guide_0.83.2.pdf and it looks great!!!
Thanks again...
Gary
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From: John Hunter [mailto:jdhunter@…8…]
Sent: Wed 3/8/2006 1:43 PM
To: Mitchell, Gary (Gary)
Cc: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] update to: I can not get matplotlib to work on a windows xp professional machine
> John, I tried using TkAgg as the backend and it raised
> a value error Unrecognized backend error. The
Perhaps you entered it in wrong -- it should be "TkAgg" as you typed
above but if you got this error I'm guessing you made a typo in your
rc file. Create a simple script
from pylab import subplot, show
ax = subplot(111)
ax.plot([1,2,3])
show()
and run it from the command line with
> python myscript.py --verbose-helpful
This will report information about which backend you've selected
etc... It will also tell you which rc file is loaded. If you
encounter further errors please post this output along with your
explanation.
Sorry for the troubles -- you're almost there!
JDH