SF.net SVN: matplotlib: [3963] trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backends/ backend_pdf.py

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Revision: 3963
          http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/?rev=3963&view=rev
Author:   mdboom
Date:     2007-10-18 10:40:30 -0700 (Thu, 18 Oct 2007)

Log Message:
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Major speedup in PDF backend by using hasattr() rather than 'in dir()'

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py

Modified: trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py	2007-10-18 15:06:49 UTC (rev 3962)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_pdf.py	2007-10-18 17:40:30 UTC (rev 3963)
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
     """Map Python objects to PDF syntax."""
 
     # Some objects defined later have their own pdfRepr method.
-    if 'pdfRepr' in dir(obj):
+    if hasattr(obj, 'pdfRepr'):
         return obj.pdfRepr()
 
     # Floats. PDF does not have exponential notation (1.0e-10) so we


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