gnuplot woes, a second story

Remco Gerlich scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl
Tue Feb 26 12:05:01 EST 2002


chajadan <python at chajadan.net> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> When I try to run gnuplot from my Python2.2 installation, I get an error 
> (listed below)
> 
> I'm on windows 98, I installed NumPy, I unzipped gp371w32.zip into my main 
> python directory, and I tried changing the command to the gnuplot program 
> FROM gnuplot_command = 'pgnuplot.exe' TO gnuplot_command = 
> 'c:\Python20\gp371w32\pgnuplot.exe'

First guess: if this is really what you wrote, you need to double the
backslashes, use \\ instead of \ (since they're the escape sign in Python
strings).

-- 
Remco Gerlich



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