Re: [matplotlib-devel] numpification and imports

2007-07-14 Thread John Hunter
On 7/13/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> No, it is not your installation.  You have identified an area that needs
> work, after we settle on a possibly new import and namespace strategy.

This is definitely something new -- help(pylab) used to display the
rather extensive pylab doc string, which starts with in pylab.py:

""
This is a matlab(TM) style interface to matplotlib.

The following plotting commands are provided; some of these do not
exist in matlab(TM) but have proven themselves to be useful
nonetheless.
The majority of them, however, have matlab analogs
...snip
"""

Are eggs doing something fishy here?  This is a weird one.
JDH

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Re: [matplotlib-devel] numpification and imports

2007-07-14 Thread Eric Firing
John Hunter wrote:
> On 7/13/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> No, it is not your installation.  You have identified an area that needs
>> work, after we settle on a possibly new import and namespace strategy.
> 
> This is definitely something new -- help(pylab) used to display the
> rather extensive pylab doc string, which starts with in pylab.py:
> 
> ""
> This is a matlab(TM) style interface to matplotlib.
> 
> The following plotting commands are provided; some of these do not
> exist in matlab(TM) but have proven themselves to be useful
> nonetheless.
> The majority of them, however, have matlab analogs
> ...snip
> """
> 
> Are eggs doing something fishy here?  This is a weird one.
> JDH

But it does it on linux, not using eggs.  I couldn't figure it out--just 
  assumed it had always done that, and I had never noticed.

Still, the matplotlib/__init__.py docstring could be changed to make 
clear the distinction between mpl and the pylab interface.  Instead, it 
talks only about the latter:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/programs/py/mpl/matplotlib_units/lib/matplotlib$ head 
__init__.py
"""
This is a matlab(TM) style functional interface the matplotlib.

The following matlab(TM) compatible commands are provided by

>>> from pylab import *

Plotting commands

   axes - Create a new axes


Eric

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