John Hunter wrote:
> On 7/13/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> No, it is not your installation. You have identified an area that needs
>> work, after we settle on a possibly new import and namespace strategy.
>
> This is definitely something new -- help(pylab) used to display the
> rather extensive pylab doc string, which starts with in pylab.py:
>
> ""
> This is a matlab(TM) style interface to matplotlib.
>
> The following plotting commands are provided; some of these do not
> exist in matlab(TM) but have proven themselves to be useful
> nonetheless.
> The majority of them, however, have matlab analogs
> ...snip
> """
>
> Are eggs doing something fishy here? This is a weird one.
> JDH
But it does it on linux, not using eggs. I couldn't figure it out--just
assumed it had always done that, and I had never noticed.
Still, the matplotlib/__init__.py docstring could be changed to make
clear the distinction between mpl and the pylab interface. Instead, it
talks only about the latter:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/programs/py/mpl/matplotlib_units/lib/matplotlib$ head
__init__.py
"""
This is a matlab(TM) style functional interface the matplotlib.
The following matlab(TM) compatible commands are provided by
>>> from pylab import *
Plotting commands
axes - Create a new axes
Eric
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