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It seems I'm running the new version:
 * line 1702 of figure.py reads as you asked
 * I just tried another CVS get and got nothing
 * I just did another run of setup.py and nothing happened
I still get the crash, and can reproduce with a simple 3-line script,
attached.
}Monday. If you'd like to send a script, I can add one of them to the
}screenshots section of the home page.
My script is an ugly beast that parses an ugly dataset. But I'll see about
getting a demo version.
	-C
--
Charles R. Twardy, Res.Fellow, Monash University, School of CSSE
ctwardy at alumni indiana edu +61(3) 9905 5823 (w) 5146 (fax)

>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Twardy <ct...@ma...> writes:
 Charles> Hi John, The latest CVS changes seem to help! The new
 Charles> deprecations are gone, and my own title works on center
 Charles> justify.
 Charles> But if I try an absurdly long title: gcf().text(0.5,
 Charles> 0.95,'Distance Histograms by Category is a really long
 Charles> title that should flow off', font, fontsize=12)
 Charles> Then I get an X Window Error and my script crashes. Most
 Charles> ungraceful.
Yes, most. Are you sure you are using the right version? Does line
1702 of figure.py read
 def clip_gc(gc):
 gc.set_clip_rectangle( (0, 0, self.width, self.height) )
 for t in self._text:
 t.clip_gc = clip_gc
I also tested with a ridiculously long figure title and did not get
the X windows crash after making these changes . CVS should have
this, but as you've noted, sometimes the mirrors are a little behind.
If you have this and are still getting the crashes, let me know and
I'll sort it out.
 Charles> For fun, I've attached the .pngs I've been working
 Charles> on. Lost-person behavior: distance travelled and outcome
 Charles> of the search, broken down by major
 Charles> categories. (Australian data)
That's great. Unfortunately I can't look at them right now because
I'm logged in remotely from a win32 machine but will check them out
Monday. If you'd like to send a script, I can add one of them to the
screenshots section of the home page.
JDH

Hi John,
The latest CVS changes seem to help! The new deprecations are gone, and 
my own title works on center justify.
But if I try an absurdly long title:
gcf().text(0.5, 0.95,'Distance Histograms by Category is a really long title that should flow off', font, fontsize=12)
Then I get an X Window Error and my script crashes. Most ungraceful.
For fun, I've attached the .pngs I've been working on. Lost-person 
behavior: distance travelled and outcome of the search, broken down by 
major categories. (Australian data)
-Charles
-- 
Charles R. Twardy Monash University, School of CSSE
ctwardy at alumni indiana edu +61(3) 9905 5823 (w) 5146 (fax)
 ~^~
 "eloquence ought to be banish'd out of all civil Societies as a
 thing fatal to Peace and good Manners..." ~Sprat 1667

Announcing matplotlib 0.21 -- http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/
What's new in matplotlib 0.21
Deprecation warnings fixed -- Several users reported deprecation
 warnings with python2.3 and pygtk 1.99.18. These were all related to
 passing floats rather than ints to gtk drawing commands. These have
 been cleaned up and none of the examples generate wanings. Let me
 know if you get some!
Improved interactive shell -- Jon Anderson posted an improved GTK
 shell to the pygtk mailing list. Using this no longer requires that
 pygtk have threading built in. See interactive2.py. Use this if you
 want to make plots interactively from the python shell.
Specifying colors -- You can now specify colors with color format
 strings, RGB tuples, or hex strings as in html. See color_demo.py
Figure text -- All text in matplotlib has previously been in axis
 (data) coordinates. Sometimes it's helpful to be able to specify
 text in figure (relative) coordinates. Now figures also have
 text. When you scroll interactively, axis text moves with the data,
 figure text is fixed. This is also useful for making a figure title
 when you have multiple columns of subplots. See figtext.py
Flicker free updates -- All drawing is done to a pixmap and then
 updated. This allows flicker free updates of the figure. You can use
 this, for example, to build a system monitor, which continuously
 shows system resources such as RAM, CPU, etc... See
 system_monitor.py for a demo.

>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Twardy <ct...@ma...> writes:
 Charles> Hi there, I've just started playing with matplot and am
 Charles> VERY impressed. 
Thanks.
 Charles>However, I thought I'd mention two items
 Charles> in case no one else has seen them.
 Charles> 1) There are a lot of Deprecation warnings on loading.
Thanks for the alert. Are you using python2.3? I've heard that 2.3
generates deprecation warnings and I plan to get them cleaned up in
the near future and do a bug-fix release, probably 0.21.
 Charles> 2) I can generate an X Window Error via a gdk
 Charles> crash. Here's the tail of the trace: [------ File
 Charles> "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py",
 Charles> line 310, in _set_font self._layout =
 Charles> self._drawingArea.create_pango_layout(self._text)
 Charles> TypeError: GtkWidget.create_pango_layout() argument 1
 Charles> must be string, not int The program 'stats.py' received
Looks like you passed an integer to a text label command in the
set(gca..., command that is causing your troubles. If you are trying
to set a ticklabel, note that they must be strings, not ints. Eg,
 set(gca(), 'xticklabels', ['%d' % val for val in arange(8)])
not
 set(gca(), 'xticklabels', arange(8))
Is this the source of your troubles (The example code you meant to
send didn't come through)? Check it out. If not, send me the script
that generates the error and I'll take a look. I haven't seen this
bug before (and I use the library a lot <wink>).
John Hunter

>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Twardy <ct...@ma...> writes:
 Charles> Hey all, I couldn't find any code to do quantiles in
 Charles> Python. It seems like it belongs in python-stats, and
 Charles> maybe other places like MLab or matplotlib. But at least
 Charles> in python-stats. Put it there if you think it belongs.
Good point. I'm going to follow the matlab signature for matplotlib.
The matlab function for this is 'prctile', and takes percents rather
than fractions for the percentile. Also it doesn't do interpolation.
def prctile(x, p = (0.0, 25.0, 50.0, 75.0, 100.0)):
 """
 Return the percentiles of x. p can either be a sequence of
 percentil values or a scalar. If p is a sequence the i-th element
 of the return sequence is the p(i)-th percentile of x
 """
 x = sort(x)
 Nx = len(x)
 if not iterable(p):
 return x[int(p*Nx/100.0)]
 p = multiply(array(p), Nx/100.0)
 ind = p.astype(Int)
 ind = where(ind>=Nx, Nx-1, ind) 
 return take(x, ind)
I'll put it in matplotlib.mlab; let me know if you find any problems.
JDH

Hey all,
I couldn't find any code to do quantiles in Python. It seems like it
belongs in python-stats, and maybe other places like MLab or matplotlib.
But at least in python-stats. Put it there if you think it belongs.
I've attached the code. It's based on the documentation given in R for
help(quantile). It's pretty straightforward and works on the two
testcases I've supplied.
It doesn't handle missing values. At least, I have no reason to expect 
it would.
-Charles
-- 
Charles R. Twardy Monash University, School of CSSE
ctwardy at alumni indiana edu +61(3) 9905 5823 (w) 5146 (fax)
 ~^~
 "eloquence ought to be banish'd out of all civil Societies as a
 thing fatal to Peace and good Manners..." ~Sprat 1667

>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Twardy <ct...@ma...> writes:
 Charles> Yes, I've just started using python2.3, which is almost
 Charles> certainly the source of the deprecation warnings.
 Charles> And yes, I had passed an integer to the text label
 Charles> command. The crash seems a bit harsh, but at least I can
 Charles> avoid that now.
I've added an automatic string conversion in the set ticklabels
functionality, so that any object that can be converted to a string
with %s will work as an argument to the ticklabels command.
 Charles> I generated a graph with 8 subplots (histograms). I
 Charles> wasn't able to use the title command on the subplots,
 Charles> because the title appeared on top of the plot above
 Charles> it. And I haven't yet figured out how to give the plot an
 Charles> overall title. I'm happy for hints if you have the
 Charles> time. Otherwise I'm fairly happy with what I've got
 Charles> (titles inside each subplot, via the text command, and no
 Charles> overall title).
I've needed this functionality too. I just followed matlab's design
which is to add the title to the current axes. In CVS, I've added a
new figure text function to the class API for Figure. The figure text
is in relative 0-1 coords (0,0 is lower left; 1,1 is upper right).
You can add a title with
 gcf().text(0.5, 0.95, 'Figure Title', fontsize=12)
 
You can also add text anywhere else you want in figure coordinates
with this command (axis text is in data coordinates). In the examples
dir in CVS there is a file figtext.py that illustrates this. Perhaps
I'll add a new function figtitle to the matlab functional interface
since this comes up fairly often.
 Charles> Thanks! This is great!
Your welcome!
John Hunter

I have updated matplotlib in CVS to fix the deprecation warnings for
python2.3. I have tested all of my example scripts and get no
warnings. If you would like to test on your scripts, please let me
know if you get any warnings. I plan to do a bug fix release
tomorrow, so let me know if you are having any troubles.
Anyone else who would be willing to test the CVS version on their
existing python2.2 installs before the bug-fix release, that would
also be great.
Thanks!
John Hunter

Yes, I've just started using python2.3, which is almost certainly the 
source of the deprecation warnings.
And yes, I had passed an integer to the text label command. The crash 
seems a bit harsh, but at least I can avoid that now.
I generated a graph with 8 subplots (histograms). I wasn't able to use 
the title command on the subplots, because the title appeared on top of 
the plot above it. And I haven't yet figured out how to give the plot an 
overall title. I'm happy for hints if you have the time. Otherwise I'm 
fairly happy with what I've got (titles inside each subplot, via the 
text command, and no overall title).
 
Thanks! This is great!
-Charles
-- 
Charles R. Twardy Monash University, School of CSSE
ctwardy at alumni indiana edu +61(3) 9905 5823 (w) 5146 (fax)
 ~^~
 "eloquence ought to be banish'd out of all civil Societies as a
 thing fatal to Peace and good Manners..." ~Sprat 1667

( I tried sending this earlier but my mail has been screwed up so my
apologies if you got a duplicate)
I have updated matplotlib in CVS to fix the deprecation warnings for
python2.3. I have tested all of my example scripts and get no
warnings. If you would like to test on your scripts, please let me
know if you get any warnings. I plan to do a bug fix release
tomorrow, so let me know if you are having any troubles.
Anyone else who would be willing to test the CVS version on their
existing python2.2 installs before the bug-fix release, that would
also be great.
Thanks!
John Hunter

Hi there,
I've just started playing with matplot and am VERY impressed.
However, I thought I'd mention two items in case no one else has seen 
them.
1) There are a lot of Deprecation warnings on loading.
2) I can generate an X Window Error via a gdk crash. Here's the tail of 
the trace:
[------
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py", line 310, 
in _set_font
 self._layout = self._drawingArea.create_pango_layout(self._text)
TypeError: GtkWidget.create_pango_layout() argument 1 must be string, 
not int
The program 'stats.py' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
 (Details: serial 4152 error_code 8 request_code 73 minor_code 0)
 (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
 that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
 To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
 option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
 backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() 
function.)
-----]
And here's the code. If you run it as is, it works fine (though the plot 
is ugly.) However, if you uncomment the "set(gca(),...", it gives the 
error.
I've started using matplot in a script to auto-generate a report.
-Charles
-- 
Charles R. Twardy Monash University, School of CSSE
ctwardy at alumni indiana edu +61(3) 9905 5823 (w) 5146 (fax)
 ~^~
 "eloquence ought to be banish'd out of all civil Societies as a
 thing fatal to Peace and good Manners..." ~Sprat 1667