[Distutils] [Matplotlib-users] MatPlotLib + Py2exe, backend problems ...

[John Hunter]

On Feb 16, 2008 5:19 AM, Stef Mientki <s.mientki at ru.nl> wrote:

> 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"
>           ],

I am not sure why the excluding is not working, but it shouldn't
affect you app.  If you are setting the backend in matplotlibrc, and
successfully distributing this file, then matplotlib will only try and
load that backend and the presence or abscense of the others shouldn't
matter.  In recent versions of matplotlib (eg the 91.2 version you are
using), you can control the build process with setup.cfg.

JDH