Re: [matplotlib-devel] more questions about the PS backend

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Jochen" == Jochen Voss <vo...@se...> writes:


    Jochen> Is there a reason for storing the PostScript data in a
    Jochen> string first?  Otherwise I could just pass the real file
    Jochen> handle to RendererPS and it would write all the stuff
    Jochen> directly into the output file.

The reason I did it (I think) was for efficiency, (wrongly) thinking
it would be faster to write to StringIO than to a file object.  Of
course, file objects buffer their output, so this is not a real
consideration.  I think its fine to make the change you suggested -
while you're in there, I suggest supporting writing to a file object
as well as a filename, as agg does now.  All backends should support
this.

JDH