[IPython-dev] QT backend failure on EPD 7.1 w ipython master

[MinRK]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 16:58, Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am testing ipython/master with EPD 7.1 and the qt matplotlib backend
>> fails with
>>
>> ImportError: Warning: formlayout requires PyQt4 >v4.3
>
> What version of PyQt4 do you have installed? What version of
> matplotlib? We had worked things out at one point such that this
> import error would simply result in the plot options editor being
> unavailable. But in the recent work to coordinate all of the import
> and api settings logic, the problem may have been reintroduced.

Brian,

If you are using the matplotlib in EPD, it's 1.0.1, and doesn't
support PySide, so
PyQt is used unconditionally in that case.  The QT_API support is only
in matplotlib
master right now.

-MinRK


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