[yt-users] Mac OS X matplotlib WX backend

[Thomas Statler]

I've just installed yt on an Intel Mac and am trying to follow the  
examples for time series plots with iyt. When the pylab.plot statement  
is executed, the python plot window appears and python hangs (spinning  
beachball cursor). If I wait long enough a plot eventually shows up  
but python is still hung.

This appears to be a known problem with the Enthought python  
distribution. (See https://svn.enthought.com/epd/ticket/186 .) I have  
verified that I get the same behavior using ordinary ipython rather  
than iyt. Happily there is also a known solution for ipython: simply  
invoke ipython with the -whtread option. I have tried this and it  
solves the problem--- in ipython.

My question now is how to do the same thing for iyt. Is there a build  
option somewhere, so that iyt will start ipython with the -wthread flag?