[yt-users] Control of thread/program not returning to ipython after creating a plot

[Matthew Turk]

Hi JC,

That's a puzzle!  Are you by any chance running on a Mac, which uses
the native OSX Ipython backend?  If you look in the scripts/iyt file,
you can see how we try to set it all up:

http://hg.enzotools.org/yt/src/dacea37d5f8b/scripts/iyt

lines 13-35.  Right now it looks like it only knows how to set it up
on Linux, or using X11 on OSX.  If you modify it so that it tries
grabbing the OSX backend, that might work for you?  Or maybe check to
see if you have DISPLAY set, and have the right rcParams in your
~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc ?

I no longer have a Mac, so I can't test this directly, but I believe
that's the trouble spot, right there.

-Matt

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Jean-Claude Passy <jcpassy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am analyzing some MESA data using iyt instead of a regular ipython.
> Everything works well except that when I make a plot with yt, control is not
> returning to the prompt. I have tried to start yt with different thread
> options (-gthread, -qthread, -q4thread and -wthread) but none of them
> worked. My version of yt is built with python 2.7.1. The weird thing is that
> it works smoothly with a regular version of ipython built from python 2.6.4.
>
> I would really appreciate if someone could help me to fix this. I would like
> to keep using yt and not have to change all my settings.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> JC
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