I found the issue and it is with Matplotlib 3.6.0. Down gradingĀ to 3.5.3 solved the issues encountered, and the code in question runs as expected.

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 4:57 PM Jos J <josjuniormail@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

I am going through the quickstart titled "An Example: Building a Price Network" found hereĀ https://graph-tool.skewed.de/static/doc/quickstart.html#an-example-building-a-price-network

After running the program, I receive the following output which is different from what the quickstart suggests should be output. Here is what I get:

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vertex: 36063 in-degree: 0 out-degree: 1 age: 36063
vertex: 9075 in-degree: 4 out-degree: 1 age: 9075
vertex: 5967 in-degree: 3 out-degree: 1 age: 5967
vertex: 1113 in-degree: 7 out-degree: 1 age: 1113
vertex: 25 in-degree: 84 out-degree: 1 age: 25
vertex: 10 in-degree: 541 out-degree: 1 age: 10
vertex: 5 in-degree: 140 out-degree: 1 age: 5
vertex: 2 in-degree: 362 out-degree: 1 age: 2
vertex: 0 in-degree: 636 out-degree: 0 age: 0
Nowhere else to go... We found the main hub!
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The output from "vertex: 36063 ..." down to "vertex: 5 ..." is as expected, but at "vertex: 2 ..." onward is different, and I am receiving the following error message, and the plot fails to be drawn

"ValueError: 'yerr' must not contain negative values"
The full error output is as follows
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ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In [2], line 92
     89 err[err >= y] = y[err >= y] - 1e-2
     91 figure(figsize=(6,4))
---> 92 errorbar(in_hist[1][:-1], in_hist[0], fmt="o", yerr=err,
     93         label="in")
     94 gca().set_yscale("log")
     95 gca().set_xscale("log")

File ~/anaconda3/envs/rapids-2208/lib/python3.8/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py:2480, in errorbar(x, y, yerr, xerr, fmt, ecolor, elinewidth, capsize, barsabove, lolims, uplims, xlolims, xuplims, errorevery, capthick, data, **kwargs)
   2474 @_copy_docstring_and_deprecators(Axes.errorbar)
   2475 def errorbar(
   2476         x, y, yerr=None, xerr=None, fmt='', ecolor=None,
   2477         elinewidth=None, capsize=None, barsabove=False, lolims=False,
   2478         uplims=False, xlolims=False, xuplims=False, errorevery=1,
   2479         capthick=None, *, data=None, **kwargs):
-> 2480     return gca().errorbar(
   2481         x, y, yerr=yerr, xerr=xerr, fmt=fmt, ecolor=ecolor,
   2482         elinewidth=elinewidth, capsize=capsize, barsabove=barsabove,
   2483         lolims=lolims, uplims=uplims, xlolims=xlolims,
   2484         xuplims=xuplims, errorevery=errorevery, capthick=capthick,
   2485         **({"data": data} if data is not None else {}), **kwargs)

File ~/anaconda3/envs/rapids-2208/lib/python3.8/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py:1423, in _preprocess_data.<locals>.inner(ax, data, *args, **kwargs)
   1420 @functools.wraps(func)
   1421 def inner(ax, *args, data=None, **kwargs):
   1422     if data is None:
-> 1423         return func(ax, *map(sanitize_sequence, args), **kwargs)
   1425     bound = new_sig.bind(ax, *args, **kwargs)
   1426     auto_label = (bound.arguments.get(label_namer)
   1427                   or bound.kwargs.get(label_namer))

File ~/anaconda3/envs/rapids-2208/lib/python3.8/site-packages/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py:3587, in Axes.errorbar(self, x, y, yerr, xerr, fmt, ecolor, elinewidth, capsize, barsabove, lolims, uplims, xlolims, xuplims, errorevery, capthick, **kwargs)
   3584 res = np.zeros(err.shape, dtype=bool)  # Default in case of nan
   3585 if np.any(np.less(err, -err, out=res, where=(err == err))):
   3586     # like err<0, but also works for timedelta and nan.
-> 3587     raise ValueError(
   3588         f"'{dep_axis}err' must not contain negative values")
   3589 # This is like
   3590 #     elow, ehigh = np.broadcast_to(...)
   3591 #     return dep - elow * ~lolims, dep + ehigh * ~uplims
   3592 # except that broadcast_to would strip units.
   3593 low, high = dep + np.row_stack([-(1 - lolims), 1 - uplims]) * err

ValueError: 'yerr' must not contain negative values
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Any idea as to what the issue might be? I am running Python 3.8, Matplotlib 3.6.0, and graph-tool 2.45

Apologies for the previous message for the wrong library to this list, I am testing out a few libraries and hastily sent that message to the wrong project.