Re: [matplotlib-devel] Minor bug with colo(u)rs outstanding since 2007

[Tony Yu <ts...@gm...>]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Peter Hansen <pe...@en...> wrote:

> I was just analyzing why 145 colours were listed in
> matplotlib.colors.cnames instead of the 140 that are apparently "HTML
> standard" and, although there's a good reason for that, in the process I
> discovered that an issue reported in 2007 in the mailing list is still
> outstanding in 1.1.0:
>
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mat...@li.../msg00669.html
>
> Basically, although there is block of code there to "add british
> equivs", the master list already has the British 'lightgrey' in it,
> instead of 'lightgray'.  For consistency with all the other cases
> ('darkgray', 'dimgray', etc) the patch in the message above should be
> applied, with the result that both "lightgray" and "lightgrey" would be
> legal, as all the other types of gray already are.
>
> Is this something I should just ticket, or is a report here sufficient?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Peter Hansen, P.Eng.
> Engenuity Corporation


It's a trivial change, but I added a PR to fix
this<https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/754>,
just to make it as easy as possible for the devs.
-Tony