Re: [matplotlib-devel] Fixing matplotlib for wxPython 2.8

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:05:24PM +0200, Gael Varoquaux wrote:
> > Committed to svn.  Please check it.

> Certainly does work betters. 

Actually, I beg your pardon, but it does not really work: if you have
2.6 and 2.8 installed, it will still import 2.6, which is not what you
want.

Here is a patch that works a bit better: it does import 2.8 even when 2.6
is installed:

Index: lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_wx.py
===================================================================
--- lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_wx.py   (revision 7251)
+++ lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_wx.py   (working copy)
@@ -124,6 +124,12 @@
 else:
     warnings.warn(
             "Update your wxversion.py to one including
AlreadyImportedError")
+    try:
+        wxversion.ensureMinimal('2.8')
+    except wxversion.VersionError:
+        pass
+    
+    
 
 try:
     import wx

Thanks for your work,

Gaël