[AstroPy] aplpy.FITSFigure only works from ipython --pylab

[Alexander Joseph Conley]

Try fig.show()
On Jun 24, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Jazmin Berlanga Medina <jazmin.berlanga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've tried posting this topic to the APLpy users group on Google, but the posting has failed (and I see no threads at all on their page, so the group may be inactive or having issues with their page). 
> 
> Is there a reason why aplpy.FITSFigure's display would work only from ipython called with the --pylab option, but not from the python interpreter or from a script called at the command line (or ipython not called with --pylab)?  
> 
> I can get the commands in my script to show me a display when I invoke Python with ipython --pylab, but not in any other circumstance.  I've tried combing through APLpy's documentation and googling for a connection between pylab/aplpy, but I can't find anything.  I need to be able to call this function from a script or otherwise be able to script plots on top of FITS files, and a simple addition of import pylab does not work. 
> 
> Contents of program: 
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> 
> import aplpy
> 
> fig = aplpy.FITSFigure('2.100Gyr_crop.fit')
> 
> fig.show_grayscale()
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> Jazmin
> 
> -- 
> 
> Jazmin Berlanga M.
> M.S. Student 
> Department of Physics
> University of Arkansas
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