Thank you John for your answer. You're right: efficiency is a non-issue. I shouldn't have mentioned it.
On 11/5/06, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nicolas> But in this function, I don't like the idea to try an > Nicolas> operation on a string, and wait for an exception in order > Nicolas> to know if we really have a string or not. It's not very > Nicolas> efficient, nor very beautiful. > > Nicolas> I guess initial developer did that to keep compatibility > Nicolas> with old Python versions. > > I did it because it is general, elegant, and efficiency doesn't matter > here (any string operation is insignificant to the work we do making a > figure). What if a user writes their own string class, eg someone > wants a mutable string, or a lower case string, or any number of > custom string objects, and these aren't covered by the types module? > > We make heavy use of duck typing in matplotlib, and it hasn't caused > us any problems I know of. > > JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
