matplotlib-devel Mailing List for matplotlib

On 3/9/2011 12:01 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Christoph Gohlke <cg...@uc...
> <mailto:cg...@uc...>> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> please consider the attached patch for the matplotlib-py3 CTPUG fork
> on github. The patch fixes several build and runtime issues/crashes.
> Tested on win-amd64-py3.2.
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> Christoph
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> Christoph,
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> A quick point of style looking over this patch. Rather than renaming
> "collections" to "mplcollections", we really should follow our own
> conventions and call it "mcoll". The same is probably true for text and
> other matplotlib objects.
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> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/coding_guide.html#style-guide
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> Then again, maybe some of these style changes should be made to master
> first and then merged into the py3k branch? The coding style is
> something we have been falling behind on and really should clean up at
> some point.
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> As for the rest of it, I don't have enough experience with py3k to comment.
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> Ben Root
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OK. The revised patch changes the name to mcoll and fixes further 
issues. I also reworked the examples to be compatible with Python 2.6+ 
and 3.x without the need to run the 2to3 tool. On Windows all but three 
examples now work on Python 3.2.
Christoph