Re: [Matplotlib-users] Is this a bug?

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

Yeah -- certain cases probably have better type safety than others.  
Long term, we probably want to do more type checking closer to the entry 
points (rather than deeper where they actually cause exceptions but are 
at that point long-removed from the user error).  That kind of checking 
doesn't seem to be the norm in languages like Python... but matplotlib 
is an exception in that it is more tuned to interactive use than many 
libraries.

Mauro Cavalcanti wrote:
> Dear Michael,
>
> Just noticed another quite interesting thing: if I (mistakenly) pass
> the "linewidth" parameter as a string (as I was doing previously with
> the "markersize" one), no backend error occurs!
>
> 2008/12/15 Michael Droettboom <md...@st...>:
>   
>> Can you share the code you used to set the properties of points and lines.
>>  It looks like somehow a string is being set where a floating-point value is
>> expected (either for dpi or markersize).
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> --
>> Michael Droettboom
>> Science Software Branch
>> Operations and Engineering Division
>> Space Telescope Science Institute
>> Operated by AURA for NASA
>>
>>     
>
> I feel highly honoured and still happier by having someone from STSI
> helping me with my biodiversity mapping project. I appreciate a lot
> the STSI Python for interactive data analysis tutorial written by
> Perry Greenfield and Robert Jedrzejewki, I have found it very useful!)
>
>   
Thanks.  I'll let them know.  I feel highly honored to work with those 
folks, too... ;)

Mike

-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA