Eric Firing wrote:
> The fix is:
>
> def is_string_like(obj):
> """
> Return True if *obj* looks like a string
>
> Such objects should include Python strings, unicode
> strings, and numpy string array scalars.
> """
> #if hasattr(obj, 'shape'): return 0
> # I think the above is a legacy of Numeric...
> try:
> if str(obj) + '' == obj:
> return True
> except (TypeError, ValueError):
> return False
> return True
>
> I am not even sure if the above is the fix we want, but having numpy
> string array elements fail "is_string_like" seems like a fundamentally
> bad thing.
I agree. It's even more egregious when you consider that:
>>>s = numpy.string_('Foo')
>>>isinstance(s, str)
True
I think a nicer workaround at the moment might be to just see if the
passed in object *is* indeed a string instance, and if so, return True.
I can't imagine that breaking anything. Figuring out why font
dictionary handling breaks would be good to do however.
Ryan
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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma
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