I have been trying to run a script to generate a mandelbrot image using matplotlib however I am getting a very peculiar error. I am running the script through IDLE, running it for the first time does nothing but running it again after that brings up a window that says:
"Runtime error!
Program: C:\Python27\pythonw.exe
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way."
The name of the window that pops up is Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
I have previously gotten errors about pythonw when trying to run image related stuff, usually the plot will stop responding and a message displays "pythonw.exe has stopped working".
I have searched high and low for a solution to this and google shows a few people having similar problems but no one replying to their posts.
I have also tried installing microsoft visual x64 C++ 2010 redistributed package but that aborted stating that there was a more up to date version present interestingly looking through windows update history shows some failed security updates for microsoft visual C++ 2008 that did later install. (don't know if thats relavent)
Running windows 7 64 bit and python 2.7
Was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to what was going on and how to fix it because I sure don't
Thanks in advance!