Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.2.0rc1 is cut

[Paul H. <pmh...@gm...>]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Russell E. Owen <ro...@uw...> wrote:
> In article <505...@st...>,
>  Michael Droettboom <md...@st...>
>  wrote:
>
>> I have tagged and created a tarball for 1.2.0rc1.  The githash is
>> bda6dd9feab8.  The tarball is on the github download page here:
>>
>> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/downloads
>>
>> I have created a new branch, v1.2.x, for continuing 1.2.x development.
>> The feature freeze on master is now lifted and big experimental changes
>> can be merged into master.  Any bugfixes that need to go into 1.2.x
>> should be merged into both places.  Please mark any PRs for the 1.2.x
>> branch with the 1.2.x milestone so we can verify that things are merged
>> in both places.
>
> It appears that
> import matplotlib
> no longer imports matplotlib.dates -- that I must do that explicitly:
> import matplotlib.dates
>
> Is that an intentional change? It breaks existing code of mine, which is
> easily fixed and perhaps was making unwarranted assumptions. But I
> wonder what else will break.

Russel,

Which version were you on? with MPL v1.1 i get:
In [28]: import matplotlib

In [29]: matplotlib.dates
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-29-a13aa8cf36d8> in <module>()
----> 1 matplotlib.dates

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'dates'

In [30]: matplotlib.__version__
Out[30]: '1.1.0'

In [31]: import matplotlib.dates

In [32]: matplotlib.dates
Out[32]: <module 'matplotlib.dates' from
'C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\dates.pyc'>