Control: reassign -1 python-matplotlib 1.3.1-1
Control: severity -1 important
Control: block 706533 by -1
This turns out to be a bug in python-matplotlib. A patch that fixes this bug is
attached. After also applying first hunk of [1], nitime builds fine.
The matplotlib patch is taken from [2].
[1]: https://github.com/nipy/nitime/commit/d9004946ea8f
[2]: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/commit/cee4ba990c7e20
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Dmitry ShachnevDescription: fix infinite recursion in units with ndarray subclasses
Origin: upstream, https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/commit/21fd7c03ba1444
Last-Update: 2013-12-24
--- a/lib/matplotlib/units.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/units.py
@@ -145,7 +145,13 @@
return converter
except AttributeError:
# not a masked_array
-converter = self.get_converter(xravel[0])
+# Make sure we don't recurse forever -- it's possible for
+# ndarray subclasses to continue to return subclasses and
+# not ever return a non-subclass for a single element.
+next_item = xravel[0]
+if (not isinstance(next_item, np.ndarray) or
+next_item.shape != x.shape):
+converter = self.get_converter(next_item)
return converter
if converter is None and iterable(x):
