I made a small change to the test harness so that the tolerance can be set on a per-test basis. I increased the tolerance for the figimage test so it passes on my machine. Cheers, Mike Michael Droettboom wrote: > Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: > >> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article >> that has been posted to gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.devel as well. >> >> Jouni K. Seppänen <jks...@pu...> writes: >> >> >> >>>> It looks like Jouni wrote that test... Jouni: could you verify that the >>>> difference isn't significant? If it's not, we can just create a new >>>> baseline image. >>>> >>>> >>> I can't replicate the problem: for me "nosetests >>> matplotlib.tests.test_image:test_figimage" passes (Python 2.6.1, >>> matplotlib revision 8276, OS X 10.6.3). Could you post the failing >>> images somewhere? >>> >>> >> Thanks for the images Michael. If I change all E1 bytes in the current >> baseline image to E0 bytes, the images match perfectly. Sounds like a >> change in the discretization of floating-point values to integer bytes. >> >> The difference is definitely not significant, but as I said, I get the >> old image on my system. I don't object to changing the baseline image, >> but the best solution would be to make the image diff less sensitive. >> Unfortunately I don't have the time to pursue this now. >> >> > Thanks for the analysis. I'll look into the image diffing and see what > can be done. > > Mike > > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA