segmentation fault

Chris Rebert clp2 at rebertia.com
Thu Oct 15 06:06:04 EDT 2009


On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:14 AM, ankita dutta <ankita.dutta09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
> i am relatively new to python programming,
> i am facing the following problem:
>
> i am tring to simply  obtain data from a file ( "B.txt" ,  data in this file
> are in single column and floats)
> and plot a graph between those values and thier index.  ( for example if in
> file , if at 2nd position valuse is 9.34 ,  x=9.34 and y=1).
> .
> .
> .
> ln1=open("B.txt","r+")
> lines5=ln1.readlines()
> exp=[ ]
> c1=[ ]
> for i in range (0,len(lines1)):
>     f1=lines1[i].split()
>     c1.append(float(f1[0]))
>     exp.append(i)
> c1.sort(reverse=1)
>
> lines=plt.plot(c1,exp,'ro')
> plt.show()
> .
> .
> .
>
> but every time its showing the following error:
>
> <some random value>  is dumped
> segmentation fault

The problem lies with whatever library you're using that provides
"plt" (or is named "plt"; your code sample is incomplete). It's coded
in C and is apparently crashing.

Cheers,
Chris
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