matplotlib-users Mailing List for matplotlib (Page 2)

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> On 09/22/2010 10:11 AM, Russell Owen wrote:
>> On Sep 22, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Russell E. Owen <ro...@uw...
>>> <mailto:ro...@uw...>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     In article <4C9...@gm...
>>>     <mailto:4C9...@gm...>>,
>>>     Alan G Isaac <ala...@gm... <mailto:ala...@gm...>>
>>>     wrote:
>>>
>>>     >
>>>     http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/accented_text.html
>>>
>>>     It's realistic, and that has a lot to be said for it.
>>>
>>>     One of my problems with matplotlib is that it is far too willing to
>>>     truncate axis labels and related information. I'd be much happier
>>>     with a
>>>     layout model that always showed the axis labels in full.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ditto on this. In addition, it would be useful to prevent axes labels
>>> from spilling over into another axes' area.
>>
>> I submitted bug report #3073546 on the issue of axis labels getting
>> truncated.
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=560720&aid=3073546&group_id=80706
>> <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=560720&aid=3073546&group_id=80706>
>>
>> You might want to add your suggestion about axis labels or submit a new
>> ticket.
>
> The problem is not a bug; it is inherent in the fundamental design.
> Therefore I moved the ticket over to feature requests.  I want to keep
> the bugs list for real bugs that we can realistically expect to solve
> fairly quickly.
>
> I don't know whether Andrew Straw's wx sizer-inspired code (mplsizer
> toolkit) solves the problem or not.  My impression is that it does
> not--I think it is working with the Axes positions, not with axis and
> tick labels, which are what cause most of the difficulties.
>
> Eric

Until a more permanent solution is figured out, can anyone recommend
any workarounds, even if they are a little clunky?  I'm embedding mpl
plots in wxPython and am also finding this issue suboptimal.

Che

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Peter Hoekje <ph...@bw...> wrote:

>  I had this same problem.  Installed
>
> matplotlib-1.0.0-python.org-py2.6-macosx10.4.dmg  on 15 Sept 2010
>
> from matplotlib.sourceforge.net  on OSX 10.6.1 and python 2.6 from
> python.org,  and got same error when trying to plot(something).  It turns
> out that all the image files (for buttons on the plot window, etc) in that
> directory have permissions similar to
>
> -rw--w----  instead of  -rwxr-xr-x.
>
> In our case, the lab administrator account (say, “labadmin”) has
> administrator privileges and was used to give permission to run the
> installer.  However, the files end up being owned by “macadmin”, and
> labadmin isn’t able to chmod or chown them.   Otherwise, it would have
> been an easy problem to solve.
>
> I just checked the bug tracker and didn’t see this error listed.
>
>
>
> peter
>
> This might actually be the closest explanation and diagnosis that I have
seen on this issue.  However, I am curious why the labadmin account could
not chmod those files?  Also, how do the permissions of those files compare
to the permissions of everything else?  Why is it that the behavior is
different for those files compared to the python modules themselves?

Ben Root

I had this same problem.  Installed
matplotlib-1.0.0-python.org-py2.6-macosx10.4.dmg  on 15 Sept 2010
from matplotlib.sourceforge.net  on OSX 10.6.1 and python 2.6 from python.org,  and got same error when trying to plot(something).  It turns out that all the image files (for buttons on the plot window, etc) in that directory have permissions similar to
-rw--w----  instead of  -rwxr-xr-x.
In our case, the lab administrator account (say, "labadmin") has administrator privileges and was used to give permission to run the installer.  However, the files end up being owned by "macadmin", and labadmin isn't able to chmod or chown them.   Otherwise, it would have been an easy problem to solve.
I just checked the bug tracker and didn't see this error listed.

peter


>2010/9/15 tom <tom.christie@...>:
>
>> Jeremy Conlin <jlconlin@...> writes:
>>> I recently installed MPL on two Macs, one running 10.6 and another
>>> running 10.5.  When I try to plot, I get the following error:
>>>
>>> TclError: couldn't open
>>>
>> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/
>> site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/home.ppm":
>>> permission denied
>>>
>>> After checking, it's true that only the owner has read permissions.
>>> This is easy enough on my end, but I wonder if there is a problem with
>>> the distributed installer that should have the correct permissions for
>>> these images.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else seen this problem or is it just me?
>>>
>>> Jeremy
>> I'm having the exact same problem. I recently installed python 2.6 on 2
>> different macs, one using OS X 10.5 and one using 10.6.  One is a powerPC and
>> one's intel, but I get the same error.
>...
>
>Ok, so it seems to be the installer, who's doing the Mac installers usually?
>
>Friedrich