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>>>>> "Norbert" == Norbert Nemec <Nor...@gm...> writes:

    Norbert> Thanks for clearing this up. Coding with three different
    Norbert> numeric libraries in mind certainly is tricky... :-(

This is another good example of the benefits of duck typing -- using
"iterable" rather than "hasattar" checks for the interface rather than
the implementation.

JDH

Thanks for clearing this up. Coding with three different numeric
libraries in mind certainly is tricky... :-(


Eric Firing wrote:
> This is fixed now in SVN.  The problem was that Numeric arrays lack a
> "len" attribute, and "hasattr(xmin, 'len')" was being used to find out
> whether xmin is a scalar or a length-2 array (xmin, xmax).  The
> solution is to do the test with "iterable(xmin)" instead.  The bug was
> introduced in 2782.
>
> Eric
>
> Edin Salkovic wrote:
>> I'm posting this because of the other thread Darren started.
>>
>> I managed to reinstall python (and the modules I use) several days ago
>> and tried again to run matplotlib with Numeric as the default backend,
>> but got the same error (the same error Darren is getting). Then I
>> installed numpy, and everything was fixed :)
>>
>> Best,
>> Edin
>>
>> On 10/22/06, Edin Salkovic <edi...@gm...> wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, I forgot to do it :(
>>>
>>> Then, just after sending the message to the list, it sprang to my
>>> mind. To make it worse, I then mistakenly entered:
>>> rm -Rf /path/to/site-packages
>>>
>>> no matplotlib at the end, and hit enter.
>>>
>>> There goes my beautiful Python install. :'(
>>>
>>> Is there some switch to setup.py to make it remove the mpl dir or does
>>> one allways have to do it by hand?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Edin
>>>
>>> On 10/22/06, Darren Dale <dd...@co...> wrote:
>>>> Did you try deleting your old mpl directory from site-packages,
>>>> remove the
>>>> build directory from you mpl sources, and rebuild from scratch?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday 22 October 2006 6:59 am, Edin Salkovic wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I built and installed the latest matplotlib from SVN.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I type:
>>>>>>>> from pylab import *
>>>>>>>> plot([1,2,3])
>>>>> I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line
>>>>> 2027, in plot
>>>>>     ret =  gca().plot(*args, **kwargs)
>>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line
>>>>> 2131, in plot    self.autoscale_view(scalex=scalex, scaley=scaley)
>>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line
>>>>> 985, in autoscale_view
>>>>>     self.set_xlim(XL)
>>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line
>>>>> 1227, in set_xlim
>>>>>     self.viewLim.intervalx().set_bounds(xmin, xmax)
>>>>> TypeError: only length-1 arrays can be converted to Python scalars.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using Numeric as numerix. I'm on a Ubuntu box with python 2.4.
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