Andrew Straw wrote: > Hi all, > > I just discovered that attempting to plot a complex array using imshow() > results in a not-very-helpful traceback (attached). Would it be worth > catching this on the actual call to imshow() and raising a more > transparent error? (The test script, slightly modified from Gaël > Varoquaux's pyreport examples is attached and makes a beautiful plot and > is also attached.) The problem is most likely quite general, so the solution should be similarly general. I suspect there is no place in mpl where a complex input makes sense. Eric