Re: [Matplotlib-users] numerix bug and bugfix

[Todd M. <jm...@st...>]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 09:57, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Firing <ef...@km...> writes:
> 
>     Eric> John, For the command-line selection mechanism of numerix.py
>     Eric> to work, the following change is needed:
> 
>     Eric> if which[0] is None: ## Add this line which =
>     Eric> rcParams['numerix'], "rc"
> 
>     Eric> Otherwise, the rcParams value clobbers the command-line
>     Eric> value.
> 
> Thanks for the alert on the numerix problem.  The numerix module was
> written before matplotlibrc existed and it appears was not properly
> updated.  It may be better to simplify this and only provide 2
> choices, command line then rc file.  Does anyone need any of the other
> methods of choosing numerix?  Is there any reason to keep .numerix or

I don't think so.  It's only useful outside the context of matplotlib.

> the NUMERIX env var?

I can't think of any reason here.  What I'd use the env var for is
probably better handled by the command line option anyway.

If no one objects, I'll rip this stuff out and update the module
docstring as Eric suggested.

Todd