Re: [matplotlib-devel] Bizarre ipython -pylab bug. Help?

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Fernando Perez <fpe...@gm...>wrote:

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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/349634
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> is a really strange bug report we had from an ipython/pylab user on
> Windows.  I don't have the foggiest idea of how his opening of
> matplotlib with Tk under Windows could open a calendar.  I don't have
> windows to test on, but if anyone here has seen this (the problem is
> only seen with MPL) or has any clue, I'd be very grateful for ideas.



Recently I was trying to diagnose a segfault in Charlie's win32 release
candidate, and was using dependency walker to step through the _tkagg.pyd
binary in the egg, and noticed all kinds of funky DLLs that based on their
name I did not know why they were getting linked in (netapi32.dll,
dnsapi32.dll, ieframe.dll).  It looks like tk is bringing in a bunch of
internet related stuff, and maybe one of these is doing something to launch
the calendar.  Never seen it before though...

JDH