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matplotlib broken

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From: Federico Beffa <beffa <at> ieee.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: matplotlib broken
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 08:59:54 +0200

I was a happy matplotlib user. Unfortunately, recently it stopped working.

Starting ipython3 and executing the following commands

%matplotlib
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
t = np.r_[0:5]
plt.plot(t, t)

now produces an empty, gray window. This was working fine in a
previous version using python3.3.

Message #8 received at 20888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Federico Beffa <beffa <at> ieee.org>
To: 20888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: matplotlib
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:08:15 +0200

Maybe I should add, that, given that python-matplotlib didn't change
in any way, the problem is likely with one of the inputs.

Regards,
Fede

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus <at> mdc-berlin.de>
To: <20888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: matplotlib broken
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 16:50:26 +0200

I'm afraid I cannot reproduce this.  This doesn't mean things just work
for me.  It rather means that I'm getting a different error:


$ GI_TYPELIB_PATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/girepository-1.0/ PYTHONPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 16 2015, 17:15:41) 
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import numpy as np
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

(process:1384): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
>>> t = np.r_[0:5]
>>> plt.plot(t, t)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/gnu/store/3qmjvhsyj5ccwx0d3lcmsirb9a78473v-python2-matplotlib-1.4.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 3092, in plot
    ax = gca()
  File "/gnu/store/3qmjvhsyj5ccwx0d3lcmsirb9a78473v-python2-matplotlib-1.4.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 828, in gca
    ax =  gcf().gca(**kwargs)
  File "/gnu/store/3qmjvhsyj5ccwx0d3lcmsirb9a78473v-python2-matplotlib-1.4.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 462, in gcf
    return figure()
  File "/gnu/store/3qmjvhsyj5ccwx0d3lcmsirb9a78473v-python2-matplotlib-1.4.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 435, in figure
    **kwargs)
  File "/gnu/store/3qmjvhsyj5ccwx0d3lcmsirb9a78473v-python2-matplotlib-1.4.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk3agg.py", line 110, in new_figure_manager
    return new_figure_manager_given_figure(num, thisFig)
  File "/gnu/store/3qmjvhsyj5ccwx0d3lcmsirb9a78473v-python2-matplotlib-1.4.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk3agg.py", line 117, in new_figure_manager_given_figure
    canvas = FigureCanvasGTK3Agg(figure)
  File "/gnu/store/3qmjvhsyj5ccwx0d3lcmsirb9a78473v-python2-matplotlib-1.4.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk3agg.py", line 25, in __init__
    backend_gtk3.FigureCanvasGTK3.__init__(self, figure)
  File "/gnu/store/3qmjvhsyj5ccwx0d3lcmsirb9a78473v-python2-matplotlib-1.4.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/backends/backend_gtk3.py", line 210, in __init__
    self._idle_event_id = GLib.idle_add(self.idle_event)
  File "/home/rwurmus/.guix-profile/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/types.py", line 44, in function
    return info.invoke(*args)
TypeError: Error invoking GLib.idle_add: Unexpected value for argument 'function'
>>> 


I don't know what this means.

On the other hand I get along without any errors if I set the backend to
'Agg' before importing pyplot:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> import matplotlib
>>> matplotlib.use('Agg')
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> t = np.r_[0:5]
>>> plt.plot(t, t)
[<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x1e2a950>]
>>> ^C

I understand that this could then be used to write the plot to a file.
Do we actually need to use the Gtk+ backend by default?

~~ Ricardo

Message #14 received at 20888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Federico Beffa <beffa <at> ieee.org>
To: 20888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Fwd: matplotlib
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 19:29:32 +0200

To make it work I had to (with the old version) set

export GI_TYPELIB_PATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/girepository-1.0"

As far as I know, 'Agg' can only be used to generate files. It can't
be used interactively a la MATLAB. That's the reason for including the
'GTK3Agg' backend.

Regards,
Fede

Message #17 received at 20888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus <at> mdc-berlin.de>
Cc: 20888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20888: matplotlib broken
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 23:26:28 +0200

Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus <at> mdc-berlin.de> skribis:

> I'm afraid I cannot reproduce this.  This doesn't mean things just work
> for me.  It rather means that I'm getting a different error:

:-)

Could you try with ‘guix environment’ as noted at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-06/msg00300.html>?

Ludo’.

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