[wingide-users] matplotlib and wingide

[Wingware Support]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, SoCool wrote:
> I have just downloade the trial version of wingide professional, and I am
> impressed.

Thanks!

> WingIde seem to be incompatible with matplotlib (
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/)

What you saw (details below) is fixable but you should also be 
aware that matplotlib apparently also multithreads internally 
which can cause problems w/ Wing's debugger because it can 
currently only debug one thread at a time.

I actually don't know that much about matplotlib, so would be 
interested in hearing if you do run into problems and might be 
able to offer some suggestions with any other problems you run 
into.

> a very simple example code does not run:
> 
> from pylab import *
> plot([1,2,3,4])
> show()
> 
> return and error in tkinter.py, "AttributeError: __nonzero__"

You can select "Ignore this exception location" in the Exceptions 
tool and continue debugging.  This choice is remembered in your 
project.
  
You can also change Wing to report exceptions only if they 
actually lead to program termination with the Debugger / 
Exceptions / Report Exceptions preference -- set it to At Process 
Termination.

There are details as to why Wing does this here:

http://wingware.com/doc/debug/managing-exceptions
 
In summary:  Deciding which exceptions to report to the 
programmer is non-trivial and the default setting is selected to 
work with the largest number of cases.
 
Hope that helps.
 
Stephan Deibel
 
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