On Mar 9, 2010, at 1:22 PM, John Hunter wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > >> Bizarre! I can reproduce it with python 2.6 (ubuntu 9.10) and mpl from >> svn. I have done a little grepping and other exploration, but have >> completely failed to find where this change is occurring. > > > > cbook imports locale -- may be implicated: > > string.letters¶ > The concatenation of the strings lowercase and uppercase described > below. The specific value is locale-dependent, and will be updated > when locale.setlocale() is called. > > See if simply importing locale first has the same effect.
It seems to be an interaction between numpy and locale. I can reproduce the problem with: >>> import locale >>> import numpy as np >>> preferredencoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() >>> import string >>> print string.letters The bug disappears after removing the numpy import. -Tony ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
