Eric Firing wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
>   
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A few of the units demos include the lines:
>>
>> from pylab import nx
>>
>> ...but this import errors for me.
>>
>> Why is that?
>>     
>
> If you are referring to scripts in the matplotlib/examples/ subdirectory 
> then you must have a version in which some of those scripts had not been 
> brought up to date with the rest of matplotlib. (Historically, this has 
> often been the case--only a subset of the examples are maintained. 
> Right now, for example, simple3d.py is broken.  3D plotting is itself 
> unmaintained, so there is little incentive to do anything about the 
> example.) In the svn version there are no lines importing nx.  This was 
> an abbreviation for the numerix module, which was a compatibility 
> wrapper for the three different numeric packages (Numeric, numarray, and 
> numpy)  until numpy was fully developed, rendering Numeric and numarray 
> obsolete.
>   
Slightly OT, but if matplotlib is participating in any sort of 
internship projects (Google Summer of Code etc.) that would be a great 
student project -- to clean up all the examples, removing dead ones, 
editing for consistency etc.

Cheers,
Mike

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