From my point of view, version 82-5 is simply too old to bother with. 
In newer versions quiver has been completely rewritten including masked 
array support.  I recommend that you remove your ubuntu mpl package and 
install the latest release from the source tarball.


Eric

giovanni ruggiero wrote:
> Hi ALL,
> I am just starting to leave the matlab to work with matplotlib 82-5 in 
> my ubuntu linux. I have problens to make a vector fild plots using 
> quiver. I have a netcdf file that i extract a u_velocity and v_velocity 
> variables, after i mask the array and try to quiver.  i get the 
> following error
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 
> 2256, in quiver
>     ret =  gca().quiver(*args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 828, 
> in quiver
>     U = asarray(U)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric/Numeric.py", line 134, 
> in asarray
>     return multiarray.array(a, typecode, copy=0, savespace=savespace)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric/MA/MA.py", line 632, in 
> __array__
>     raise MAError, \
> MA.MA.MAError: Cannot automatically convert masked array to Numeric 
> because data
>                    is masked in one or more locations.
> 
> 
> But if  i do not mask the array but i try to plot without the scale it 
> gets the   error :
> 
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 
> 2256, in quiver
>     ret =  gca().quiver(*args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 855, 
> in quiver
>     if Nmax == 0: #jb
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'Nmax' referenced before assignment
> 
> Could someone helps me?
> Thanks
> 
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