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Hi Michael,
On 26/04/2013 14:40, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> On 04/26/2013 02:57 AM, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Anyone can provide some info on what "agg.buffer_rgba" returns and maybe
>> even some suggestion on how to resolve this issue in the wxagg backend.
> It returns a Python buffer object on Python 2, though on Python 3 it is
> a memoryview, since buffer was deprecated. Perhaps wx is also doing
> something different depending on the version of Python.
As of Phoenix 2.9.5.81-r73873 matplot works with Phoenix, here is Robin 
Dunn's comment to the change he did on Phoenix with regards to the 
buffer handling.
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The new buffer APIs go as far back as 2.6, IIRC, and the memoryview and 
bytearray object types are available in 2.7 in addition to 3.x and that 
I what I'm using in Phoenix. I would have expected MPL to do so also 
since numpy is an integral part of MPL and the new buffer interface was 
basically designed for and by numpy...
Anyway, while double checking all this I realized that it would not be 
hard for me to accept old or new buffer objects for source buffers (I'll 
still use memoryviews or bytearrays when on the producer side of things) 
so try again after the next snapshot build. My unittests with 
array.arrrays started working after the change so I expect that MPL's 
rgba buffer should work too.
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Enclosed is the patch for backend_wx.py and for embedding_in_wx5.py 
which I used for testing, in the later I use wxversion.select to force 
selection of a particular version - I think the distribution should 
still just use ensureMinimal.
FYI, documentation for wxPython Phoenix are here:
http://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/index.html
And snapshots can be found here:
http://wxpython.org/Phoenix/snapshot-builds/
I tested only on Python 2.7.2 on Windows 7.
Werner