Fixed bug related to matplotlib backend (issue #8). Updated version info.

geoarray/__init__.py

 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-__author__ = """Daniel Scheffler"""
-__email__ = 'danschef@gfz-potsdam.de'
-__version__ = '0.5.9'
-__versionalias__ = 'v20170823.01'
+import os
+if 'MPLBACKEND' not in os.environ:
+    os.environ['MPLBACKEND'] = 'Agg'
 
 
 from .baseclasses import GeoArray
@@ -11,8 +10,13 @@ from .masks import BadDataMask
 from .masks import NoDataMask
 from .masks import CloudMask
 
-__all__=['GeoArray',
-         'BadDataMask',
-         'NoDataMask',
-         'CloudMask'
-         ]
+
+__author__ = """Daniel Scheffler"""
+__email__ = 'danschef@gfz-potsdam.de'
+__version__ = '0.5.10'
+__versionalias__ = 'v20170830.01'
+__all__ = ['GeoArray',
+           'BadDataMask',
+           'NoDataMask',
+           'CloudMask'
+           ]

setup.py

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ with open('HISTORY.rst') as history_file:
     history = history_file.read()
 
 requirements = [
-    'py_tools_ds>=0.4.2', 'numpy', 'matplotlib', 'six', 'gdal', 'shapely', 'geopandas', 'pandas', 'dill', 'mpld3', 'geojson',
-    'folium', 'scikit-image'
-    #'holoviews', #  conda install --yes -c ioam bokeh holoviews=1.8.0 ; \
+    'py_tools_ds>=0.4.2', 'numpy', 'matplotlib', 'six', 'gdal', 'shapely', 'geopandas', 'pandas', 'dill', 'mpld3',
+    'geojson', 'folium', 'scikit-image'
+    # 'holoviews', #  conda install --yes -c ioam bokeh holoviews=1.8.0 ; \
     # git+https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap.git  # conda install --yes -c conda-forge basemap
     ]
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ test_requirements = ["coverage"]
 
 setup(
     name='geoarray',
-    version='0.5.9',
+    version='0.5.10',
     description="Fast Python interface for geodata - either on disk or in memory.",
     long_description=readme + '\n\n' + history,
     author="Daniel Scheffler",
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ try:
     import holoviews
 except ImportError:
     warnings.warn('You need to install holoviews manually (see www.holoviews.org) if you want to use interactive '
-                  'plotting. It is not automatically installed.') # TODO
+                  'plotting. It is not automatically installed.')  # TODO
 
 # check for basemap
 try: