Re: [Matplotlib-users] strtod dilemma

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

Luis Saavedra wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> When the 'pylab' module is loaded the function 'strtod' does not work well.
>   
Can you elaborate on how it doesn't work?
> I suppose that this is not new: 
> http://www.python.org/search/hypermail/python-1994q2/0750.html
>
> and the question is: any solution?
>   
There's a solution in that link: use one of the many alternatives that 
are known to be more consistent across various versions of UNIX.
> In this linkit exists a better description of the problem:
>
> http://mbdynsimsuite.sourceforge.net/build_mbdyn_bindings.html
>   
I think this is not a matplotlib-specific problem, but a Python one, 
since Python provides its own strtod definition -- in an apparent 
attempt to get around its differences on different platforms.  If you 
grep over the matplotlib source code, "strtod" isn't even there.

Cheers,
Mike