Tony S Yu wrote: > On Mar 9, 2010, at 1:22 PM, John Hunter wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: >> >>> Bizarre! I can reproduce it with python 2.6 (ubuntu 9.10) and mpl from >>> svn. I have done a little grepping and other exploration, but have >>> completely failed to find where this change is occurring. >> >> >> cbook imports locale -- may be implicated: >> >> string.letters¶ >> The concatenation of the strings lowercase and uppercase described >> below. The specific value is locale-dependent, and will be updated >> when locale.setlocale() is called. >> >> See if simply importing locale first has the same effect. > > > It seems to be an interaction between numpy and locale. I can reproduce the > problem with: > >>>> import locale >>>> import numpy as np > >>>> preferredencoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
cbook also calls locale.getpreferredencoding() when it is imported. Eric > >>>> import string >>>> print string.letters > > The bug disappears after removing the numpy import. > > -Tony > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
