hello,

I'm trying to create a distro with py2exe, including MatPlotLib. After finally resolving the matplotlib datapath problem, I bumped into a new problem concerning backends.

I'm using MatPlotLib 0.91.2 I only need the wx-Backend.

In Py2exe I tried to exclude as many backends as possible, but the excludes seems to have no effect. 'excludes' : [ '_gtkagg', '_tkagg', '_agg2', '_cairo', '_cocoaagg', '_fltkagg', '_gtk', '_gtkcairo', 'backend_qt', 'backend_qt4', 'backend_qt4agg', 'backend_qtagg', 'backend_cairo', 'backend_cocoaagg', 'Tkconstants', 'Tkinter', 'tcl', "_imagingtk", "PIL._imagingtk", "ImageTk", "PIL.ImageTk", "FixTk" ],

The creating of the distro seems to work, but the distro won't run, because of some problems with tk-backends, (which I don't need or even want).

The problem might be caused by a crashed installation of tk in the past. And might also be amplified by the fact that I use from pylab import *

Now I guess I can effectively remove the unnecessary backends, by removing the following lines from \backends__init__.py

interactive_bk = ['GTK', 'GTKAgg', 'GTKCairo', 'FltkAgg', 'QtAgg', 'Qt4Agg', 'TkAgg', 'WX', 'WXAgg', 'CocoaAgg'] non_interactive_bk = ['Agg2', 'Agg', 'Cairo', 'EMF', 'GDK', 'Pdf', 'PS', 'SVG', 'Template']

I don't know if this solves the problem (haven't tried it yet), but I certainly thinks this is not the proper way to go.

Any solution / suggestion would be very welcome (while MatPlotLib is quit essential in my distro)

thanks, Stef Mientki