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Hi:
When I run the simple_3danim.py example
(http://matplotlib.org/examples/animation/simple_3danim.html) I get
the following error:
 File "simple_3danim.py", line 47, in <module>
 ax.set_xlim3d([0.0, 1.0])
 File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib-1.3.x-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/axes3d.py",
line 571, in set_xlim3d
 if right is None and iterable(left):
NameError: global name 'iterable' is not defined
I can fix this by replacing `ax.set_xlim3d([0.0, 1.0])` by
`ax.set_xlim3d(0.0, 1.0)` (and similarly for the `ax.set_ylim3d` and
`ax.set_zlim3d`).
I'm running mpl ver. 1.3.
If this is a bug, I can send a PR.
Alejandro.

No, I didn't... I believe that in this specific case, I just manually drew
a decently sized box around the axis spine and implemented my own contains
method to match.
It would be nice for every artist to be consistent in this area though.
Maybe a MEP is in order to make every artist have a consistent interface as
defined by the base class?
 On Dec 30, 2012 1:00 AM, "Michael McNeil Forbes" <
mic...@gm...> wrote:
> On 7 Oct 2011, at 4:56 PM, Daniel Hyams wrote:
>
> I'm wanting to highlight the artist under the cursor with a transparent
>> Rectangle patch. To do this, I have very, roughly, in a mouse motion
>> handler,
>>
>> under = self.figure.hitlist(ev)
>> if under:
>> artist = under[0]
>> bbox = artist.get_window_extent()
>> highlight = matplotlib.patches.Rectangle(**
>> xy=bbox.min,width=bbox.width,**height=bbox.height,alpha=0.2,**
>> color='yellow')
>> # further code to blit the last captured graph region with highlight
>> drawn on top
>>
>> The main problem is that all artists don't implement get_window_extent();
>> a Text object does, and a legend object does, but the Axis objects do not.
>>
>> So is there a general way to get the bounding box of an artist?
>>
>
> Did you ever find a way to get the bounding box of an artist? I could use
> this too.
>
> Michael.
>