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Howdy,

We just installed matplotlib version 0.70.1 on a new computer, and some
code I wrote broke which was written for matplotlib 0.61. 

The code I used that broke was:

from time import time
from matplotlib.matlab import *

with the later version of matplotlib this became:

from time import time
from matplotlib.pylab import *

and this doesn't work because pylab exposes time as a module. Now I
realize this is not necessarily good programming style :-). But I am
using  about 20 different pylab commands. So the question is, should
pylab be more careful about what it exposes?

thanks,
Danny 



		
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Stephen Walton wrote:

> At my request, John Hunter put a feature in the 'load' subroutine in 
> Pylab which treats everything after a '%' sign as a comment.  This 
> makes it more compatible with MATLAB (tm);  I use this feature to 
> comment files which would otherwise be simple lists of numbers.  
> However, there is a small bug.  Line 851 in pylab.py should change from
>
>        line = line[:line.rfind('%')].strip()
>
> to
>
>        line = line[:line.find('%')].strip()
>
> since everything after a '%' sign should be treated as a comment.  
> This bit me when I had a comment line where the comment itself 
> included a % sign.

Done.

Now maybe someone can contribute a patch for 3D plots while John is in 
Brazil as a sign of our appreciation. :)

Cheers!
Andrew

At my request, John Hunter put a feature in the 'load' subroutine in 
Pylab which treats everything after a '%' sign as a comment.  This makes 
it more compatible with MATLAB (tm);  I use this feature to comment 
files which would otherwise be simple lists of numbers.  However, there 
is a small bug.  Line 851 in pylab.py should change from

        line = line[:line.rfind('%')].strip()

to

        line = line[:line.find('%')].strip()

since everything after a '%' sign should be treated as a comment.  This 
bit me when I had a comment line where the comment itself included a % sign.