[Matplotlib-users] Small bug in matplotlib-0.70

[Stephen W. <ste...@cs...>]

At my request, John Hunter put a feature in the 'load' subroutine in 
Pylab which treats everything after a '%' sign as a comment.  This makes 
it more compatible with MATLAB (tm);  I use this feature to comment 
files which would otherwise be simple lists of numbers.  However, there 
is a small bug.  Line 851 in pylab.py should change from

        line = line[:line.rfind('%')].strip()

to

        line = line[:line.find('%')].strip()

since everything after a '%' sign should be treated as a comment.  This 
bit me when I had a comment line where the comment itself included a % sign.