[matplotlib-devel] python-2.3 support

2007-09-21 Thread Darren Dale
It looks like some syntax introduced in python-2.4 is starting to find its way into matplotlib: File /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib-0.90.1_r3867-py2.3-linux-i686.egg/matplotlib/texmanager.py, line 113 + tuple('font.'+n for n in ('family', ) + font_families)

Re: [matplotlib-devel] python-2.3 support

2007-09-21 Thread Michael Droettboom
Does anyone have an opinion on how much longer we will support python-2.3? Maybe a good guide would be to support the most up-to-date RHEL release, as well as the prior release. (At my lab, we haven't updated our RHEL computers to version 5 yet, the first to include python-2.4.) Is the

[matplotlib-devel] cbook.reversed does not yield the same result as the python builtin

2007-09-21 Thread Darren Dale
After removing my build/ and site-packages-matplotlib*, I installed the most up-to-date svn numpy and matplotlib on a RHEL4 machine. I'm getting the following errors: File /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib-0.90.1_r3867-py2.3-linux-i686.egg/matplotlib/_cm.py, line 5962, in ?

Re: [matplotlib-devel] python-2.3 support

2007-09-21 Thread Christopher Barker
Michael Droettboom wrote: Is the current Mac OS-X version also something to consider? I don't think so. You really need to install a newer/better version to do anything significant with python on OS-X -- particularly anything with a GUI. John Hunter wrote: We don't really need generator