[IPython-user] threading and ipython -pylab problem

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:36:35PM +0100, Gabriel Beckers wrote:
> Probably the wx is not a good idea?

You  cannot run Wx and GTK mainloops in the same process. If you want to
use pylab and wx code, you need to you the WxAgg backend. If you run
'ipython -pylab -wthread', it should select the right backend for you
automatically.

Gaël