Re: [Matplotlib-users] EMF output: too many values to unpack error

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Usjes <ois...@ya...> wrote:

> Benjamin Root-2 wrote
> > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Klonuo Umom <
>
> > klonuo@
>
> > > wrote:
> >
> > I set up pull requests to fix this problem, so the v1.0.x-maint branch
> and
> > the master branch should soon have the fixes commited to them.  You can
> > get
> > the latest bugfixed branch for v1.0.1 at
> > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/tree/v1.0.x-maint, although
> that
> > would mean having to build from source.  You could also just edit your
> > copy
> > of the file C:\Python26\lib\site-
> > packages\matplotlib\backends\backend_emf.py so that [:3] is added to the
> > end
> > of lines 69 and 105.  This page should show you what changes you need:
> >
> https://github.com/WeatherGod/matplotlib/commit/bf8d9d6f7cea1546c736d3897387698e6ae5e5b3
> >
> > I hope that helps!
> >
> > Ben Root
>
> Hi,
>
> I am having the same problem when trying to save a figure to a .emf file
> via
> pylab.savefig().
> I have tried updating backend_emf.py as suggested but this does not fix the
> problem, it still has a problem with the updated code(see below).
> The only difference I can see with the original poster is that I am using
> backend_qt4agg.py rather than backend_wxagg.py in the original posters
> code.
> This shouldn't change the fix, should it ?
>
>
Does it fail for the example I originally gave?

from pylab import *
plot([1, 2, 3])
savefig("foobar.emf")


Ben Root