My fault, I didn't read the docstring properly. Thanks for both replies.

Best,

G

On 15/03/2011 13:51, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> It has no way of deducing the file format from the file object.
>
> You need to explicitly pass the format keyword to savefig, e.g.:
>
>     savefig(f, format='pdf')
>
> Mike
>
> On 03/15/2011 07:11 AM, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I call savefig by passing to it a file-like object but it appears to not
>> get the graphics format right:
>>
>> f = open('not_a_pdf.pdf', 'w')
>> plot([1,2,3])
>> savefig(f)
>>
>> but it produces a PNG image. Can anybody confirm this? I am on
>> matplotlib 0.99.3
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Giovanni
>>
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