Thread: [matplotlib-devel] Bug in ticker.py

Hi,
I'm posting this to the mailing list first because I'm not sure I've 
fixed this correctly. This is a patch for a bug in ticker.py.
In Autolocator.get_locator, if the distance passed in is 0, the call to 
log10 will crash with an overflow error. I think I'm hitting this 
problem because I plot a lot of binary data, and the first plot when 
this happened, consisted of all zeros (giving the y axis no distance - I 
could be talking complete nonsense, I haven't really examined the 
code). What I'm not sure about is, in the case that distance is 0, 
should the variable ld be set to 0 (as I have done in the attached 
patch), or is another value more sensible?
thanks,
David Moore

>>>>> "David" == David Moore <da...@sj...> writes:
 David> Hi, I'm posting this to the mailing list first because I'm
 David> not sure I've fixed this correctly. This is a patch for a
 David> bug in ticker.py.
Another user told me about this one offlist and the fix is in CVS. My
approach was to revert to what we were doing before (which somehow got
lost in translation) which is to set the view lim to be plus/minus 1
the constant value.
Thanks for the patch, anyhow!
JDH