Re: [matplotlib-devel] 1.2.0rc1 is cut

[Russell O. <ro...@uw...>]

On Sep 18, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Paul Hobson wrote:

> 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'>

I was using 1.1.1 most recently. I'm not sure when I started using matplotlib.dates without explicitly importing it.

In any case, it sounds as if it's not meant to work, so there's no need to change anything in matplotlib.

Regards,

-- Russell