Re: [Matplotlib-users] Small bug in matplotlib-0.70

[Andrew S. <str...@as...>]

Stephen Walton wrote:

> 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.

Done.

Now maybe someone can contribute a patch for 3D plots while John is in 
Brazil as a sign of our appreciation. :)

Cheers!
Andrew