Hi Mike,

About this question: TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer,
dict found

The version of matplotlib that i'm using is matplotlib-0.99.1-py2.6

And how do I remove the font cache in ~ / .matplotlib / fontList.cache

My Operating System is Windows.

Thanks,

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>   4. Re: barchart errorbars always in both directions (Benjamin Root)
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> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 02:49:05 -0700 (PDT)
> From: rajtendulkar <pranav.tendul...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] Difference in show and output file
> To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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>
> Just in case, if anyone needs the answer, I figured it out.
> I used the transData transform in order to draw the lines correctly.
>
> Here is the code -
>
> # The code below is to add the lines near the tick labels
> fig = barGraph.fig
> xAxisLim=barGraph.ax.xaxis.get_view_interval()
> tickLocArray = barGraph.ax.xaxis.get_majorticklocs()
> yStart=-70
> yEnd=-0.5
> line = Line2D([xAxisLim[0], xAxisLim[0]],
>              [yStart,yEnd],linewidth=2, color='black',
>               transform=barGraph.ax.transData)
>
> fig.lines.append(line)
>
> for i in xrange(11):
>    lnWidth=2
>    yStartOffset=0
>    if((i+1)%4 != 0):
>        lnWidth=1
>        yStartOffset=20
>    xOffset = tickLocArray[i] + (tickLocArray[i+1] - tickLocArray[i])/2
>    line = Line2D([xOffset, xOffset],
>              [yStart+yStartOffset,yEnd],linewidth=lnWidth, color='black',
>               transform=barGraph.ax.transData)
>    fig.lines.append(line)
>
>
> line = Line2D([xAxisLim[1], xAxisLim[1]],
>              [yStart,yEnd],linewidth=2, color='black',
>               transform=barGraph.ax.transData)
>
> fig.lines.append(line)
>
> plt.figtext(0.247, 0.05, '1')
> plt.figtext(0.523, 0.05, '2')
> plt.figtext(0.797, 0.05, '4')
>
>
> Thank You!
> Raj
>
>
> rajtendulkar wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I am trying to write a program in matplotlib to generate stacked bar
> > graphs.
> > My problem is that the commands -  plt.show() and
> > self.fig.savefig(fileName) generate different outputs.
> > I tried different output formats like PDF, PNG, EPS. But the problem
> > remains the same.
> > This happens for the lines that I am trying to draw outside the plot.
> > I am trying to draw vertical lines between xticklabels.
> > I have uploaded the data file and the code file.
> >  http://old.nabble.com/file/p33893817/data.dat data.dat
> >  http://old.nabble.com/file/p33893817/matplot1.py matplot1.py
> > Could anyone explain how to resolve this problem?
> >
> > Thank You,
> > Raj
> >
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 09:16:09 -0300
> From: Wal?ria Antunes David <waleriantu...@gmail.com>
> Subject: [Matplotlib-users] TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need
>        string or       buffer, dict found
> To: Matplotlib Users <matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
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>
> Hi,
>
> Anyone know how to solve this error?
>
> Exception Type: TypeError Exception Value: coercing to Unicode: need string
> or buffer, dict found
>
> Can you help me??
>
> See mycode: http://dpaste.com/751460/
>
> And see my Traceback: http://dpaste.com/750773/
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 08:29:48 -0400
> From: Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need
>        string or buffer, dict found
> To: <matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
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>
> It's a long shot, but have you tried removing the font cache in
> ~/.matplotlib/fontList.cache?  What version of matplotlib are you using?
>
> Mike
>
> On 05/23/2012 08:16 AM, Wal?ria Antunes David wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone know how to solve this error?
> >
> > Exception Type: TypeError Exception Value: coercing to Unicode: need
> > string or buffer, dict found
> >
> > Can you help me??
> >
> > See mycode: http://dpaste.com/751460/
> >
> > And see my Traceback: http://dpaste.com/750773/
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 08:55:42 -0400
> From: Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] barchart errorbars always in both
>        directions
> To: "Meesters, Aesku.Kipp Institute" <meest...@aesku-kipp.com>
> Cc: "matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net"
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> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Meesters, Aesku.Kipp Institute <
> meest...@aesku-kipp.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm following the example in the gallery to do a barchart plot (see
> > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/api/barchart_demo.html ).
> >
> > In contrast to the example I would like to see the error bars only above
> > the bars, so I tried
> >
> > rects2 = ax.bar(ind+width, womenMeans, width, color='y',
> >                yerr=stds, error_kw = {'barsabove': True,
> >                                       'ecolor'   : 'k'}
> >
> > While the 'ecolor' argument gets accepted, 'barsabove' apparently has no
> > effect (error bars still point up and downwards) - yet, no warning /
> > error is triggered. Where is my mistake? Or is this a bug (still using
> > version 1.0.1) with a known work-around?
> >
> > TIA
> > Chris
> >
> >
> Chris,
>
> I don't think "barsabove" does what you want.  By "above", it means that
> the errorbar is plotted in a layer on top of the plotting symbol rather
> than in the layer under it.  Both ends will be plotted.
>
> To get what you want, you might want to try (Note: untested):
>
> rects2 = ax.bar(ind+width, womenMeans, width, color='y',
>               yerr=np.vstack([[0]*len(stds), stds]), error_kw = {'ecolor'
>  : 'k'})
>
> When yerr is a 2xN numpy array, errorbars are plotted at y-yerr[0, :] and
> y+yerr[1,:]. So, np.vstack creates a 2xN array where the first row is all
> zeros and the second row is the stds values.
>
> I hope that works for you!
> Ben Root
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> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 15:04:21 +0200
> From: Sergi Pons Freixes <sponsfrei...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] Slow imshow when zooming or panning
>        with several synced subplots
> To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID:
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>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Guillaume Gay
> <guilla...@mitotic-machine.org> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> >
> > What is the size of a single image file? If they are very big, it is
> > better to do everything from processing to ploting at once for each file.
>
> As stated below, each image is single-channel, of 4600x3840 pixels. As
> you can see on the code, there is not much processing, just loading
> the images and plotting them. What it's slow is not the execution of
> the code, is the interactive zooming and panning once the plots "are
> in the screen".
>
> >> It's 15 images, single-channel, of 4600x3840 pixels each.
> > This is a lot of data. ?8bit or 16bit ?
>
> They are floating point values (for example, from 0 to 45.xxx). If I
> understood correctly, setting the vmin and vmax, matplotlib should
> normalize the values to an appropriate number of bits.
>
> >> for f in filelist:
> > everything should happen in this loop
> >
> >> ? ? ?dataset = ncdf.Dataset(os.path.join(sys.argv[1],f), 'r')
> >> ? ? ?data.append(dataset.variables[variable][:])
> > instead of creating this big list, use a temporary array (which will be
> > overwritten)
> >> ? ? ?dataset.close()
> >> ? ? ?dates.append((f.split('_')[2][:-3],f.split('_')[1]))
>
> Why? It's true that this way at the beginning it eats a lot of RAM,
> but then it is released after each pop() (and calculating the maximum
> of all the data without plotting is needed to use the same
> normalization level on all the plots). Anyway, the slowness ocurrs
> during the interaction of the plot, not during the execution of the
> code.
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 14:14:05 +0000
> From: "Meesters, Aesku.Kipp Institute" <meest...@aesku-kipp.com>
> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] barchart errorbars always in both
>        directions
> To: "ben.r...@ou.edu" <ben.r...@ou.edu>
> Cc: "matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net"
>        <matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Message-ID: <1337782494.2773.10.camel@meesters>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Thanks, Ben. This is indeed what I was looking for and gives the desired
> behavior.
>
> Thanks a lot!
> Chris
>
> On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 08:55 -0400, Benjamin Root wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Meesters, Aesku.Kipp Institute
> > <meest...@aesku-kipp.com> wrote:
> >         Hi,
> >
> >         I'm following the example in the gallery to do a barchart plot
> >         (see
> >
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/api/barchart_demo.html ).
> >
> >         In contrast to the example I would like to see the error bars
> >         only above
> >         the bars, so I tried
> >
> >         rects2 = ax.bar(ind+width, womenMeans, width, color='y',
> >                        yerr=stds, error_kw = {'barsabove': True,
> >                                               'ecolor'   : 'k'}
> >
> >         While the 'ecolor' argument gets accepted, 'barsabove'
> >         apparently has no
> >         effect (error bars still point up and downwards) - yet, no
> >         warning /
> >         error is triggered. Where is my mistake? Or is this a bug
> >         (still using
> >         version 1.0.1) with a known work-around?
> >
> >         TIA
> >         Chris
> >
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > I don't think "barsabove" does what you want.  By "above", it means
> > that the errorbar is plotted in a layer on top of the plotting symbol
> > rather than in the layer under it.  Both ends will be plotted.
> >
> > To get what you want, you might want to try (Note: untested):
> >
> > rects2 = ax.bar(ind+width, womenMeans, width, color='y',
> >                yerr=np.vstack([[0]*len(stds), stds]), error_kw =
> > {'ecolor'   : 'k'})
> >
> > When yerr is a 2xN numpy array, errorbars are plotted at y-yerr[0, :]
> > and y+yerr[1,:]. So, np.vstack creates a 2xN array where the first row
> > is all zeros and the second row is the stds values.
> >
> > I hope that works for you!
> > Ben Root
> >
> >
>
>
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