[Chimera-users] chimera: gnuplot.py

[John Robinson]

Thanks Eric,

It was the path.  IDLE's default dir is '/'.
Issuing the following made things work.
Gnuplot.GnuplotOpts.gnuplot_command = '/usr/local/bin/gnuplot'

Thanks again.

On Feb 9, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Eric Pettersen wrote:

> Hi John,
> 	Where did you install gnuplot (the program, not the module)?  The  
> execution path (os.environ['PATH']) is considerably different in  
> standalone Python than in Chimera's IDLE shell.  I suspect that the  
> gnuplot executable is not on IDLE's PATH (the Gnuplot module by  
> default tries to run gnuplot simply as 'gnuplot').  If the problem  
> is with PATH, your options include modifying os.environ['PATH']  
> before importing Gnuplot, or changing the Gnuplot module's options  
> like so:
>
>         import Gnuplot
>         Gnuplot.GnuplotOpts.gnuplot_command = '/bin/mygnuplot'
>
> --Eric
>
>                         Eric Pettersen
>                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
>                         pett at cgl.ucsf.edu
>                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu
>
>
> On Feb 8, 2006, at 6:01 PM, John Robinson wrote:
>
>> Dear chimera power-users:
>>
>> I can use the gnuplot.py library from the python command line without
>> issue.  However, when I try to do the same in IDLE under chimera, I
>> get a broken pipe error.
>>
>>   Any suggestions?
>>
>> --John
>>
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>> mailto:johnmrobinson at mac.com
>>
>>
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