Re: [matplotlib-devel] A sad day for our community. John Hunter: 1968-2012.

2012-08-29 Thread Fernando Perez
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Jim Benson wrote: > My apologies also for replying to the lists (double post), but the above web > address did not work for me under Safari Version 5.1.7 (6534.57.2) (there > was only one other post when i tried to post). > I only got a "Please complete the CAPTCHA

Re: [matplotlib-devel] A sad day for our community. John Hunter: 1968-2012.

2012-08-29 Thread Jim Benson
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Fernando Perez wrote: > Dear friends and colleagues, > > [please excuse a possible double-post of this message, in-flight > internet glitches] > > I am terribly saddened to report that yesterday, August 28 2012 at > 10am, John D. Hunter died from complications arising from ca

[matplotlib-devel] A sad day for our community. John Hunter: 1968-2012.

2012-08-29 Thread Fernando Perez
Dear friends and colleagues, [please excuse a possible double-post of this message, in-flight internet glitches] I am terribly saddened to report that yesterday, August 28 2012 at 10am, John D. Hunter died from complications arising from cancer treatment at the University of Chicago hospital, af

Re: [matplotlib-devel] bug in vector plotting

2012-08-29 Thread Eric Firing
On 2012/08/29 10:07 AM, David Raymond wrote: > > I think that I have found a serious bug in vector plotting (quiver) > when the "angle=xy" option is used on a plot with a large aspect > ratio. It is my understanding that with this option, the vector with > tail at (x,y) would have its head at (x +

Re: [matplotlib-devel] bug in vector plotting

2012-08-29 Thread Eric Firing
On 2012/08/29 10:07 AM, David Raymond wrote: > > I think that I have found a serious bug in vector plotting (quiver) I think you are correct, but a quick look at the code has not yet revealed what is going wrong. I will look into it. Eric > when the "angle=xy" option is used on a plot with a l

[matplotlib-devel] bug in vector plotting

2012-08-29 Thread David Raymond
I think that I have found a serious bug in vector plotting (quiver) when the "angle=xy" option is used on a plot with a large aspect ratio. It is my understanding that with this option, the vector with tail at (x,y) would have its head at (x + vx,y + vy); at least this is what it says in the docu

Re: [matplotlib-devel] documentation error at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/sampledoc/custom_look.html

2012-08-29 Thread Paul Ivanov
thanks, Keith, looks like Michael fixed the apostrophe. But not the misspelling of Eliot's last name. I've update it now. On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:50 AM, wrote: > “TS Elliots’ maxim” should be “T. S. Eliot’s maxim” J > > > > Keith > > > > > > > --

Re: [matplotlib-devel] gca() returns Axes

2012-08-29 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > Correction: now I can't reproduce what I thought I was seeing; plt.gca() > is returning an AxesSubplot as it should. Maybe the problem is in the > axes_grid1 toolkit. It is appearing in the last figure of the > tight_layout tutorial in the do