Re: [matplotlib-devel] What would you like to see in a book about Matplotlib?

2009-01-30 Thread Chris Walker
Note: Posted to matplotlib-devel and debian-science. Sandro, Firstly, good luck with the book. The sort of book I'd buy would explain how to use the combination of matplotlib/ipython/scipy/numpy to analyse data. > - what are you using matplotlib for? I want to use matplotlib/ipython

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [sage-devel] Re: upgrading matplotlib and ignoring sage's matplotlibrc

2009-01-30 Thread John Hunter
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> I *wish* matplotlib would replace their stupid deprecation warnings by >> something that just updates the matplotlibrc file, and say makes a >> copy of the old one. Is there any way we could catch the warnings and >> if they occur move $DO

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [sage-devel] Re: upgrading matplotlib and ignoring sage's matplotlibrc

2009-01-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:49 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Jason Grout > wrote: >> >> I just finished upgrading the matplotlib spkg to the newest version. >> See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/4774 >> >> This version of matplotlib deprecates some of the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Axis.get_label question

2009-01-30 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Evans, James R wrote: > Is there a reason why Axis.get_label returns the label as a Text instance, or > should there really be set_label/get_label methods that takes a string and > set the text value of the Text instance and returns the string value of the > Tex

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Fwd: python make.py html

2009-01-30 Thread John Hunter
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Nils Wagner wrote: >>> I tried to build the HTML documentation. >>> Here are some failures Hi Nils, thanks for the report. The doc build makes every example in the examples directories. Unfortunately, a few of these have gone stale due to code rot, but we are a