On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Stéfan van der Walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about a slight modification to Fernando's idea: a dummy function that > > a) Does nothing if matplotlib is not installed > b) Otherwise passes through calls to matplotlib, after setting the > backend to /dev/null. Any results (lines, figures, etc.) are > suppressed.
That's doable; it turned out to be easy to explicitly specify the execution context of the doctests, so we can add in any number of dummy objects/functions. In my working NumPy, the only globally available items are __builtins__ and np; I was going to update all the doctests that won't run under that context before changing the tester behavior, though. At the moment I don't know anything about configuring matplotlib's backend and all that, but I'm sure it shouldn't be hard to figure out. If somebody was to write a first draft of these dummy objects before I got around to it I wouldn't complain about it, though. ;) (By the way, I'm not assuming that there's a consensus about the matplotlib dummy objects, just saying it turns out to be easy to add if we want to.) _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
