Re: [Matplotlib-users] Postscript problem

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

>>>>> "Carol" == Carol Leger <car...@sr...> writes:

    >> Yep, this is a bug.  In backend_ps in the the set_linedashes
    >> function on line 103, replace the line if seq: with if seq is
    >> not None and len(seq): My guess is you are using numarray, and
    >> if memory serves numarray but not Numeric fails on using an
    >> array as a boolean, which is what backend ps is doing here.
    >> 
    Carol> Yes, I am using numarray.  I made the change to line 103
    Carol> and now line 102 is reporting a similar error.

Ignore my last post - the solution I posted was as buggy as before.  I
think I finally nailed this down.  Basically, we are comparing seq1
and seq2, either are possibly None, or general sequences, or arrays.
I wrote a little function

def seq_allequal(seq1, seq2):
    """
    seq1 and seq2 are either None or sequences or numerix arrays
    Return True if both are None or both are seqs with identical
    elements
    """
    if seq1 is None:
        return seq2 is None

    if seq2 is None:
        return False
    #ok, neither are None:, assuming iterable
        
    if len(seq1) != len(seq2): return False
    return alltrue(equal(seq1, seq2))

You should import alltrue and equal from the numerix module at the top
of backend_ps, add this function to backend_ps and then replace
set_linedash with

    def set_linedash(self, offset, seq):        
        if self.linedash is not None:
            oldo, oldseq = self.linedash
            if seq_allequal(seq, oldseq): return
            
        if seq is not None and len(seq):
            s="[%s] %d setdash\n"%(_nums_to_str(*seq), offset)
            self._pswriter.write(s)
        else:
            self._pswriter.write("[] 0 setdash\n")
        self.linedash = (offset,seq)


I think this is finally coherent.  At least it passes my tests now...

JDH