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Ademir,
I am glad it is working for you now. Just as a note, the unicode() function
uses whatever encoding that is default on your system. Therefore, if it is
possible for you to get inputs of strings in other encodings, then it is
considered good practice to handle this at the point of string creation.
Therefore, the rest of the code can simply assume that the strings are in
the system's default encoding.
Therefore, something like your solution would be better than changing the
unicode() call in the suptitle() function.
Ben Root
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Ademir Francisco da Silva <
Ade...@it...> wrote:
> Ryan ...,
>
> Very good ..., it works perfectly ...
>
> It's so easy but I didn't remember to use it ...
>
> In fact my problem is slightly more complicated than this because I have
> used textName[ 2 ] instead of literal LotoFácil as I told you ( I know I
> didn't say this before, my fault ), the correct code is ...
>
> fig.suptitle( textName[ 2 ], fontsize = self.fon[ 6 ][ 1 ], fontweight =
> "extra bold",
>
> fontstyle = "italic", color = self.cor[ 608 ][ 1 ],
> lod = True )
>
> however, after your mention about *unicode string* you gave me a good idea
> so I solved my problem this way ...
>
> fig.suptitle( unicode( self.textName[ 2 ], "cp1252" ), fontsize = self.fon[
> 6 ][ 1 ], fontweight = "extra bold",
>
> fontstyle = "italic", color = self.cor[ 608 ][ 1 ],
> lod = True )
>
> and everything works perfectly again.
>
> But I was thinking that the correct way is to fix it there in cbook.py,
> anyway ...
>
> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\cbook.py", line 1682, in
> is_math_text
> s = unicode(s)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in position 5:
> ordinal not in range(128)
>
>
> Thank you very much for your prompt aid,
>
>
>
> Ademir Francisco da Silva
>
>
> Em 03/07/2010 19:05, Ryan May escreveu:
>
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Ademir Francisco da Silva<Ade...@it...> <Ade...@it...> wrote:
>
> excerpt of may code is ...
> fig.suptitle( "LotoFácil", fontsize = self.fon[ 6 ][ 1 ], fontweight = "extra bold",
> fontstyle = "italic", color = self.cor[ 608 ][ 1 ], lod = True )
>
> but I'm Brazilian and this is not correct for us. Help me please.
>
> Try using a python unicode string instead:
>
> fig.suptitle( u"LotoFácil", fontsize = self.fon[ 6 ][ 1 ], fontweight
> = "extra bold",
> fontstyle = "italic", color = self.cor[ 608 ][
> 1 ], lod = True )
>
> That works for me here (though with the original, I just get missing
> characters, not an error).
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
>
> --
> Ademir Francisco da Silva
>
>
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>

 Ryan ...,
Very good ..., it works perfectly ...
It's so easy but I didn't remember to use it ...
In fact my problem is slightly more complicated than this because I have 
used textName[ 2 ] instead of literal LotoFácil as I told you ( I 
know I didn't say this before, my fault ), the correct code is ...
fig.suptitle( textName[ 2 ], fontsize = self.fon[ 6 ][ 1 ], fontweight = 
"extra bold",
 fontstyle = "italic", color = self.cor[ 608 ][ 1 
], lod = True )
however, after your mention about /unicode string/ you gave me a good 
idea so I solved my problem this way ...
fig.suptitle( unicode( self.textName[ 2 ], "cp1252" ), fontsize = 
self.fon[ 6 ][ 1 ], fontweight = "extra bold",
 fontstyle = "italic", color = self.cor[ 608 ][ 1 
], lod = True )
and everything works perfectly again.
But I was thinking that the correct way is to fix it there in cbook.py, 
anyway ...
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\cbook.py", line 1682, in 
is_math_text
 s = unicode(s)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in position 5: 
ordinal not in range(128)
Thank you very much for your prompt aid,
Ademir Francisco da Silva
Em 03/07/2010 19:05, Ryan May escreveu:
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Ademir Francisco da Silva
> <Ade...@it...> wrote:
>> excerpt of may code is ...
>> fig.suptitle( "LotoFácil", fontsize = self.fon[ 6 ][ 1 ], fontweight = "extra bold",
>> fontstyle = "italic", color = self.cor[ 608 ][ 1 ], lod = True )
>>
>> but I'm Brazilian and this is not correct for us. Help me please.
> Try using a python unicode string instead:
>
> fig.suptitle( u"LotoFácil", fontsize = self.fon[ 6 ][ 1 ], fontweight
> = "extra bold",
> fontstyle = "italic", color = self.cor[ 608 ][
> 1 ], lod = True )
>
> That works for me here (though with the original, I just get missing
> characters, not an error).
>
> Ryan
>
-- 
Ademir Francisco da Silva

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Fa <fa...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi all, I am trying to figure out how I can limit the xaxis date ranges. I
> tried set_xlim(), but that didn't work. The graph consists of dates for the
> xaxis and data for the yaxis. Currently the xaxis is showing the entire
> year's worth of months, even though there are no data for some months. This
> plot is really close to what I want, however, I need to limit the xaxis to a
> only a few months.
>  weeks  = matplotlib.dates.WeekdayLocator()  # every year
>  months  = matplotlib.dates.MonthLocator() # every month
>  monthsFmt = matplotlib.dates.DateFormatter('%b')
>  fig = pylab.figure()
>  ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
>  ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(months)
>  ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(monthsFmt)
>  ax.xaxis.set_minor_locator(weeks)
>  pylab.bar(x,y)
set_xlim() (or pylab.xlim() ) should work just fine. You should use
the same kind of data as you used for x in your pylab.bar() call.
Personally, I've used datetime objects so the following works:
import datetime
pylab.xlim(datetime.datetime(2010, 03, 01), datetime.datetime(2010, 07, 01))
If this doesn't work for you, I'd need to see what data you're plotting with.
Ryan
-- 
Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Bartosz Telenczuk
<b.t...@bi...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to change the labels of minor ticks, but leave the labels of the major ticks unchanged. To do this, I use the following function:
>
> ax = plt.subplot(111)
> ax.set_xticks([1,3,5])
> ax.set_xticks([2,4], minor=True)
> ax.set_xticklabels(["a", "b"], minor=True)
>
> However, in result of the function both minor and major tick labels are changes. I checked the source code of XAxis.set_ticklabels and it contains following lines:
>
> axis.py: lines 1335-1342
>
>    if minor:
>      self.set_minor_formatter(mticker.FixedFormatter(ticklabels))
>      ticks = self.get_minor_ticks()
>    else:
>      self.set_major_formatter( mticker.FixedFormatter(ticklabels) )
>      ticks = self.get_major_ticks()
>
>    self.set_major_formatter( mticker.FixedFormatter(ticklabels) )
>
> Note that the last lines sets the major tick formatter regardless of the "minor" argument. Is it intentional behaviour?
Thanks for the report (and the good detective work). Fixed in trunk.
(As far as I can tell, this is due to an SVN merge error from the
transforms branch.)
Ryan
-- 
Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma