[IPython-dev] %gui wx completely borked on Ubuntu 12.04, how about other OSes?

Lev Givon lev at columbia.edu
Fri Jun 8 08:04:26 EDT 2012


Received from Fernando Perez on Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:58:55PM EDT:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just noticed that '%gui wx' (or --gui wx at startup) goes into an
> infinite loop of this error message:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "_ctypes/callbacks.c", line 314, in 'calling callback function'
>   File "/home/fperez/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/lib/inputhookwx.py",
> line 128, in inputhook_wx3
>     ea = wx.EventLoopActivator(evtloop)
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'EventLoopActivator'
> 
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this?  It's not just me, as I found it
> reported against ubuntu:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wxwidgets2.8/+bug/998716
> 
> Is it working on osx/windows/ other linuxes?

No error on Mandriva Linux 2011 (wxgtk 2.8.12). I also can't replicate
the error on Ubuntu 12.04.

						L.G.



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