Re: [Matplotlib-users] rendering strings with a ")" in an eps image

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

>>>>> "Jochen" == Jochen Voss <vo...@se...> writes:
    Jochen> Thank you for spotting this.  I fixed it in CVS.

Great!  Thanks.

    Jochen> John: my fix contains the fancy expression

    Jochen>     re.sub(r"[^ -~\n]", lambda x: r"\%03o"%ord(x.group()),
    Jochen> s)

    Jochen> to quote all non-ASCII characters.  Is this safe with all
    Jochen> supported Python versions or do I need to be more portable
    Jochen> here?

It looks valid to me across 2.2 - 2.4.  The best solution though, is
to test it.  How about a unit test called "whacky_chars" which makes
titles, xlabels and ylabels as if they came from a foul-mouthed comic
strip character.  We could add this to unit test dir and test it
across backends.

Thanks,
JDH