matplotlib basic question

[orangeDinosaur]

OK, I'll go with the enthought installation.  This seems to be the
path of least resistance.  For those of you who have been in my
position, is there a reason NOT to go with the enthought installation
and do things piecemeal instead?

thanks,
trevis

On Apr 20, 11:36 am, Pete Forman <pete.for... at westerngeco.com> wrote:
> orangeDinosaur <trevis.cr... at gmail.com> writes:
>
>  > [...] But now, the figure window is completely unresponsive -- I
>  > can't even close it without getting the "your program is not
>  > repsonding" business.  What am I missing?  This behavior so far
>  > seems pretty unintuitive.
>
> The best way out of this is to use IPython.  It also needs a backend
> which remains responsive, WxAgg works but Tk did not last time I
> tried.  IPython 0.8.1 is a release candidate which fixes some Windows
> issues in 0.8.0.  If you want a stable package that has all the parts
> present out of the box then look at Enthought.
> --
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