Yes, it looks like if it were an "unsigned int", we would have been okay. That looks like (essentially) what your patch does, but in a C++ idiom. I'll submit your patch and put a note out to the Windows guys to help test it. There's a good chance that if it compiles at all, it should work.
Thanks for getting to the bottom of this. Cheers, Mike Malte Marquarding wrote: > Hi > > Attached is the the patch. It uses stringstream, so I don't know if it > will work on all platforms. I am not a windows person ;-) > I didn't read your email properly about the existence of "atoll", so > as I am a c++er I am a bit more comfortable with stringstream. > > Cheers, > Malte. > > > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users