Re: [matplotlib-devel] Status of pylab example loadrec.py

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:11:12 -0600
  "John Hunter" <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:26 PM, John Hunter 
><jd...@gm...> wrote:
> 
>>
>>> Is it planned to adapt the example wrt xlwt ?
>>>
>>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt
>>>
>>
>>
>> True it is no longer maintained, but it does work.  We 
>>are looking into
>> xlwt (I wasn't aware of it until today when you 
>>forwarded the message)
>>
> 
> I've added support for xlwt in svn r6560  -- give it a 
>whirl
> 
> JDH

Hi John,

I have upgraded to r6561.

python test.py --verbose-helpful
$HOME=/data/home/nwagner
CONFIGDIR=/data/home/nwagner/.matplotlib
matplotlib data path 
/data/home/nwagner/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data
loaded rc file /data/home/nwagner/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "test.py", line 1, in <module>
     import matplotlib.mlab as mlab
   File 
"/data/home/nwagner/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", 
line 700, in <module>
     rcParams['text.usetex'] = 
checkdep_usetex(rcParams['text.usetex'])
   File 
"/data/home/nwagner/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", 
line 367, in checkdep_usetex
     dvipng_v = checkdep_dvipng()
   File 
"/data/home/nwagner/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", 
line 261, in checkdep_dvipng
     stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
   File 
"/data/home/nwagner/local/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", 
line 593, in __init__
     errread, errwrite)
   File 
"/data/home/nwagner/local/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", 
line 1079, in _execute_child
     raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
  

Any idea ?

             Nils