On Thursday 13 December 2007 11:07:57 am John Hunter wrote: > I moved the tools in mlab that did optional imports (the rec2gtk and > rec2excel functions and their dependencies) out of mlab into > toolkits.gtktools and toolkits.exceltools. As Michael noted, these > imports can be expensive for users with gtk on their system and do not > belong in mlab. In some cases, eg logged in over a dumb terminal with > no x11 but where gtk is present, they also trigger text warnings or > errors from gtk, so are a nuisance. I thought it was worth cleaning > this up for the bugfix release. > > If you get a minute to test before the release, that would help -- the > excel part requires pyExcelerator, which is pure python > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator > > import gtk > import matplotlib.mlab as mlab > import matplotlib.toolkits.gtktools as gtktools > import matplotlib.toolkits.exceltools as exceltools > > r = mlab.csv2rec('test.csv', checkrows=0) > > formatd = dict( > weight = mlab.FormatFloat(2), > change = mlab.FormatPercent(2), > cost = mlab.FormatThousands(2), > ) > > > exceltools.rec2excel(r, 'test.xls', formatd=formatd) > mlab.rec2csv(r, 'test.csv', formatd=formatd) > > > > scroll = gtktools.rec2gtk(r, formatd=formatd, autowin=False) > win = gtk.Window() > win.set_size_request(600,800) > win.add(scroll) > win.show_all() > gtk.main() I just ran this on 64-bit linux and didnt see any problems. I do have an issue with pygtk on my system, but I dont think it is related to mpl: /usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:69: Warning: ignoring sys.argv: it must be a list of strings _gtk.init_check()