[Pythonmac-SIG] Gnuplot Installation

[Larry Meyn]

I needed to do a few hacks to get Gnuplot.py version 1.5 to run under MacPython 2.1.  First in gp_mac.py (in the Gnuplot folder) the following code was changed from:

class _GNUPLOT(aetools.TalkTo,
               Required_Suite.Required_Suite,
               gnuplot_Suites.gnuplot_Suite,
               gnuplot_Suites.odds_and_ends,
               gnuplot_Suites.Standard_Suite,
               gnuplot_Suites.Miscellaneous_Events):
    """Start a gnuplot program and emulate a pipe to it."""

    def __init__(self):
        aetools.TalkTo.__init__(self, 'GPSE', start=1)

to:

class _GNUPLOT(aetools.TalkTo,
               Required_Suite.Required_Suite_Events,
               gnuplot_Suites.gnuplot_Suite,
               gnuplot_Suites.odds_and_ends,
               gnuplot_Suites.Standard_Suite,
               gnuplot_Suites.Miscellaneous_Events):
    """Start a gnuplot program and emulate a pipe to it."""

    def __init__(self):
        aetools.TalkTo.__init__(self, '{GP}', start=1)

(Note the use of Required_Suite.Required_Suite_Events and '{GP}' )

I also needed to modify Required_Suite.py in the MacPython 2.1 distribution.  It had no methods for open, print, run, and quit so I copied them from Standard_Suite.py (I don't know if this is the best solution, but it was expedient.)  Following these changes the set up and demo scripts in Gnuplot seemed to run fine.

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