[SciPy-User] ANN: IEP, the interactive Editor for Python

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:46 AM,  <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Christian Prinoth
> <christian at prinoth.name> wrote:
>> FYI, in my experience QScintilla has problems on OSX, graphical glitches and
>> various artifacts. I am looking forward to your experience.
>> Christian
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 18:09, Almar Klein <almar.klein at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 24 August 2010 17:57, Ian Stokes-Rees <ijstokes at hkl.hms.harvard.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > The main reason for doing this is that it can be quite a bit of work
>>>> > to install Python3 + PyQT4 + Qscintilla on Linux. Prebuilding saves a
>>>> > lot of people that work :)
>>>> >
>>>> > I hope to provide something similar for Mac users in the near future
>>>> > (but I need some help with that since I do not own a Mac).
>>>>
>>>> We run a developer network with a number of different platforms
>>>> available (including OS X 10.5 and 10.6).  I could probably get you an
>>>> account there.  Desktop/graphical access is via VNC, AFAIK.
>>>
>>> Wow, thanks for the offer. I'll first ask a friend who owns a Mac if he
>>> can help me out though. I get back to you if I still need your suggestion :)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>   Almar
>>>
>>>
>
> unfortunately it doesn't seem to like my matplotlib setup with Tkinter
> backend on WindowsXP. The file runs without problems in IDLE. Are
> there special options in the matplotlib rc file required?
>
>
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 21 2008, 13:11:45) on win32.
> This is the IEP interpreterType "help" for help, type "?" for a list of *magic*
> commands.
>>>> [executing "firms.py"]
> c:\programs\python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib-0.99.1-py2.5-win32.egg\matplot
> lib\rcsetup.py:117: UserWarning: rcParams key "numerix" is obsolete and has no e
> ffect;
>  please delete it from your matplotlibrc file
>  warnings.warn('rcParams key "numerix" is obsolete and has no effect;\n'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "C:/Josef/eclipsegworkspace/openecon/pyecon/pyecon/micro/firms.py", line
> 551, in <module>
>    f1.plot()
>  File "C:/Josef/eclipsegworkspace/openecon/pyecon/pyecon/micro/firms.py", line
> 300, in plot
>    pl.plot()
>  File "C:/Josef/eclipsegworkspace/openecon/pyecon/pyecon/micro/firms.py", line
> 437, in plot
>    plt.figure()
>  File "C:\Programs\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib-0.99.1-py2.5-win32.egg
> \matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 254, in figure
>    # do not solve using profit_function as difficulties with numerical
>  File "C:\Programs\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib-0.99.1-py2.5-win32.egg
> \matplotlib\backends\backend_tkagg.py", line 90, in new_figure_manager
>    __call__ returns function values, i.e. total cost
>  File "C:\Programs\Python25\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1631, in __init__
>    baseName = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
> IndexError: list index out of range


Changing shell setting to using TK and using "run file as script"
instead of "run file"  is working so far.

Josef

>
> Josef
>