You need to escape the [:
mpl_pp.xlabel(r"$\[$")
[] and {} have special meanings in math syntax, so to use them
"literally", they need to be escaped.
Cheers,
Mike
Matthias Michler wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> the little example below leads to an error on my system (output is attached).
> I used this some time ago and it worked. Now I'm using the release 0.91.2.
> Is there a reason to use rectangular brackets not in mathtext?
> (same problem occur with '{' for me.)
>
> best regards and thanks in advance for any help,
> Matthias
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> import matplotlib.pyplot as mpl_pp
> mpl_pp.axes()
> mpl_pp.xlabel("$[$")
> mpl_pp.show()
>
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