Simson Garfinkel wrote:
>>> Hi, Eric.
>>> Ah. Just my luck. I always push this stuff in new and unexpected ways.
>>> Here's what I'm trying to do --- I want to plot a graph of circles 
>>> where the size of the circle and color are determined by the data, 
>>> where the X axis is year/month/day, and the Y axis is just day. (So a 
>>> lot of "1" values would be a lot of slightly diagonal lines.)
>>> Any idea how to do this within the current matplotlib, or should I 
>>> just hack it by hand?
>>
>> Simson,
>>
>> The scatter function or Axes method is designed for exactly this, but 
>> units support was broken in two places.  I have fixed it in 6781 on 
>> the 98.5 maintenance branch, merged to the trunk in 6782.  So, please 
>> update to one of these and try scatter().  (Watch out for the odd 
>> definition of the "s" kwarg for size: area in points squared.)
>>
>> Eric
> 
> Hm. So this means I need to switch from the .tar.gz releases to the 
> subversion releases?

Yes.  I don't know when a release will be made from the 98.5 maintenance 
branch.

Eric

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