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Those of you who updated from mpl svn between last night and now, may
have noticed that the pan/zoom/etc functionality was broken. Last
night I factored out the callback event handler that we use to support
the toolbar navigation into a reusable class in cbook. And I broke
it.
It is now fixed in revision 3126. If you want to use something like
this in your own code, it goes like so
In [1]: from matplotlib.cbook import CallbackRegistry
In [2]: signals = 'eat', 'drink', 'be merry'
In [3]: def oneat(x): print 'eat', x
In [5]: def ondrink(x): print 'drink', x
In [6]: callbacks = CallbackRegistry(signals)
In [7]: cid = callbacks.connect('eat', oneat)
In [8]: cid2 = callbacks.connect('drink', ondrink)
In [11]: callbacks.process('drink', 123)
drink 123
In [12]: callbacks.process('eat', 456)
eat 456
In [13]: callbacks.process('be merry', 456)
In [14]: callbacks.disconnect(cid)
In [15]: callbacks.process('eat', 456)
In [16]: tmp = callbacks.connect('drunk', ondrink)
------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<ipython console>", line 1, in ?
 File "/home/titan/johnh/dev/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/cbook.py",
line 39, in connect
 self._check_signal(s)
 File "/home/titan/johnh/dev/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/cbook.py",
line 32, in _check_signal
 raise ValueError('Unknown signal "%s"; valid signals are %s'%(s, signals))
ValueError: Unknown signal "drunk"; valid signals are ['be merry',
'drink', 'eat']
JDH

The coding guide recommends that any **kwargs dictionary that is passed 
into a function should be copied so that the original is unaffected when 
items are popped off inside the function. I noticed that this is not 
done by pylab functions generated by boilerplate.py, and in fact I don't 
think it is necessary:
In [9]:def test2(**kw):
 ...: first = kw.pop('a')
 ...: print first
 ...: print kw
 ...:
 ...:
In [10]:test2(**kw)
c
{'b': 'd'}
In [11]:kw
Out[11]:{'a': 'c', 'b': 'd'}
Popping the 'a' entry inside the function did not affect the dictionary 
that was passed in; it evidently gets copied automatically.
Am I missing something? Or should I go ahead and strip out the extra 
copies and modify the corresponding advice in CODING_GUIDE?
Eric