On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Fernando Avila Castro wrote:

Hi, i have installed the Scipy packages on Scientific Linux 4 (derived from RHEL 4) with the ATLAS libs, gnuplot.py and wxPython. It rans the test ok, and I can make plots using gplt. The problem is with plt. I can't even run the examples on the plotting tutorial:

Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 18 2005, 12:15:38) [GCC 3.4.3 20041212 (Red Hat 3.4.3-9.EL4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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from scipy import * import gui_thread gui_thread.start() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gui_thread/__init__.py", line 73, in start wxPython_thread() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gui_thread/wxPython_thread.py", line 160, in wxPython_thread sys.modules[name] = wrap_extmodule(module,call_holder) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gui_thread/wxPython_thread.py", line 61, in wrap_extmodule raise NotImplementedError,`t` NotImplementedError: <type 'PyCObject'> gui_thread.wxPython_thread() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gui_thread/wxPython_thread.py", line 156, in wxPython_thread for name in get_extmodules(pexec): File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gui_thread/wxPython_thread.py", line 25, in get_extmodules _do_import(pexec) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gui_thread/wxPython_thread.py", line 104, in _do_import assert not sys.modules.has_key('wx'), \ AssertionError: wx is already imported, cannot proceed

Any hints on how to solve this?

First import and start gui_thread and then import scipy:

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import gui_thread gui_thread.start() from scipy import *

HTH, Pearu