[SciPy-user] Pythonw crashes if I try to plot Complex data points

[Hetal Patel]

Whenever I try to plot complex data using either plt or gplt from any pyhton 
shell(Python,PythonWin,IDLE,PyCrust). windows reports that pythonw has 
crashed.

I know that it's a bit unfair to ask the plot routines to plot complex data 
but I would expect an error, not python to crash.

I'm running the latest SciPy release on Windows XP.

Example code below crashes.

>>>from scipy import *
>>>a = arange(1,10,0.2)
>>>b = a + 2.j
>>>b
array([ 1. +2.j,  1.2+2.j,  1.4+2.j,  1.6+2.j,  1.8+2.j,  2. +2.j,
             2.2+2.j,  2.4+2.j,  2.6+2.j,  2.8+2.j,  3. +2.j,  3.2+2.j,
             3.4+2.j,  3.6+2.j,  3.8+2.j,  4. +2.j,  4.2+2.j,  4.4+2.j,
             4.6+2.j,  4.8+2.j,  5. +2.j,  5.2+2.j,  5.4+2.j,  5.6+2.j,
             5.8+2.j,  6. +2.j,  6.2+2.j,  6.4+2.j,  6.6+2.j,  6.8+2.j,
             7. +2.j,  7.2+2.j,  7.4+2.j,  7.6+2.j,  7.8+2.j,  8. +2.j,
             8.2+2.j,  8.4+2.j,  8.6+2.j,  8.8+2.j,  9. +2.j,  9.2+2.j,
             9.4+2.j,  9.6+2.j,  9.8+2.j])
>>>gplt.plot(b)

At this point python\pythonw crashes with the following error
"python.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for 
the inconvenience."

If anyone can help me resolve this then I would greatly appreciate it.

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