Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib differences MacOSXAgg and others

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

It is not clear to me that 4202 would fix it, and I think 4202 has a 
basic problem of its own.

John, if you haven't already done so, please escalate this to a github 
issue.

Eric

On 2015/07/15 4:58 AM, Thomas Caswell wrote:
> The PR to fix this is still open
> (https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/4202).
>
> Tom
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:29 AM John Coppens <jo...@jc...
> <mailto:jo...@jc...>> wrote:
>
>     Hello again,
>
>     I've posted these two issues in separate mails, as I suspect they're
>     actually different problems.
>
>     This error is particular to the default version of MacOSX's matplotlib
>     version 1.4.3:
>
>     When doing a simple plot:
>
>     import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>
>     def test_plot():
>          x = range(11)
>          y = [x0**2 for x0 in x]
>
>          plt.plot(x, y, 'o:', fillstyle='none', label = "1", ms = 10)
>          plt.legend()
>          plt.show()
>
>     def main(args):
>          test_plot()
>          return 0
>
>     if __name__ == '__main__':
>          import sys
>          sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
>
>     Much of the data is available on this thread on stackoverflow:
>
>     http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31408928/how-can-i-plot-hollowed-symbols-connected-with-dotted-lines-in-one-go/31410105?noredirect=1#comment50794519_31410105
>
>     The gist is that a dotted line ('o:') works correctly
>     on my system (Linux Slackware/matplotlib 1.3.1 and 1.4.3), on C.C.Yang's
>     Linux Mint, but not on his MacOSX (on which the _circle symbols_ are
>     also
>     dotted).
>
>     It does work if he defines TkAgg or GtkAgg (even though he does not have
>     Gtk installed on his Mac)
>
>     Any suggestions to solve this?
>
>     Is there a problem in the MacOSXAgg backend?
>
>     John
>
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