[SciPy-user] mysterious problem with gplt.png

[Pearu Peterson]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Christopher Fonnesbeck wrote:

> I now have scipy more-or-less happily functioning on my OSX machine 
> (thanks to all that offered help and advice!). I am, however, running 
> into an odd problem with exporting plots using gplt to a png file. 
> gplt.png and gplt.output both refuse to output to the specified file, 
> even though the methods seem to run without error. I'm not even sure 
> how to debug this. Any ideas? Here is some sample code:
> 
> from scipy.gplt import *
> def plot_time_series(data,name,xlab='Time',ylab='State'):
> 	'Plot (mutiple) time series'
> 	
> 	plot(data)
> 	print 'Plotting',name
> 	grid('off')
> 	xtitle(xlab)
> 	ytitle(ylab)
> 	png("%s.png" % name)
> 	close()

The above function works here fine (png images are outputed
to specified files). Do you get any errors? What are they?
Just in any case, scipy.gplt requires gnuplot installed.

Pearu