[matplotlib-devel] What is rcParams['units'] for?

2011-04-19 Thread Eric Firing
While investigating the imshow problem reported today by Emanuale Passera (a problem that seems to have been fixed, though I don't know when or how), I stumbled across the verbose-helpful report of the "units" rcParams entry. Sure enough, it is in rcsetup.py and in matplotlibrc.template, but a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] What is rcParams['units'] for?

2011-04-19 Thread Darren Dale
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > While investigating the imshow problem reported today by Emanuale > Passera (a problem that seems to have been fixed, though I don't know > when or how), I stumbled across the verbose-helpful report of the > "units" rcParams entry.  Sure enough

Re: [matplotlib-devel] What is rcParams['units'] for?

2011-04-19 Thread James Evans
Honestly, I do not know what the units rc param is for. Personally I try to stay away from anything rc parameter related. I would guess that it was put in to handle default units, but the unit system handles defaults based on the type of data being plotted. Perhaps it was added in the first d

Re: [matplotlib-devel] What is rcParams['units'] for?

2011-04-19 Thread Eric Firing
On 04/19/2011 05:03 AM, James Evans wrote: > Honestly, I do not know what the units rc param is for. Personally I try to > stay away from anything rc parameter related. > I'm not an rc fan, either, though the rc system does have its benefits. > I would guess that it was put in to handle default

Re: [matplotlib-devel] What is rcParams['units'] for?

2011-04-19 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:03 AM, James Evans wrote: > Honestly, I do not know what the units rc param is for.  Personally I try to > stay away from anything rc parameter related. > > I would guess that it was put in to handle default units, but the unit system > handles defaults based on the ty

[matplotlib-devel] sampledoc tutorial small typos ...

2011-04-19 Thread Sylvain Bellemare
Hi, please forgive me if that is not the appropriate mailing list to send this message. On the first page of the sampledoc tutorial, the second paragraph reads: "The source code for this tutorial lives in mpl svn (see *Fetching the data*