On 2010-03-09 12:37 PM, Eric Firing wrote: > Eric Firing wrote: >> Tony S Yu wrote: >>> 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() >> >> cbook also calls locale.getpreferredencoding() when it is imported. > > Confirmation: > > In [1]:import string > > In [2]:string.letters > Out[2]:'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' > > In [3]:import locale > > In [4]:locale.getpreferredencoding () > Out[4]:'UTF-8' > > In [5]:string.letters > Out[5]:'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
PyGTK calls locale.setlocale() and thus may be affecting string.letters. > The lesson seems to be that the only proper use for string.letters is > for testing membership, in which case the order does not matter. Yes. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
