Re: [Py-RRDTool-Users] New line weirdness

[Mark K. <mr...@eu...>]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 16:12, al...@al... wrote:
> Le Vendredi 27 Ao=FBt 2004 15:30, Mark Kilmartin a =E9crit :
> > I have a section of code that calls py-rrdtool as follows.
> >
> > rrdtool.graph('test.gif','--start=3D-1days','--title=3D"Demo Graph"',
> > 'DEF:rtt=3D/var/log/nagios/rrd/172.17.2.1_PING.rrd:RTT:AVERAGE',
> > 'DEF:max=3D/var/log/nagios/rrd/172.17.2.1_PING.rrd:RTT:MAX',
> > 'COMMENT:"\n    maximum     average    current\n"',
> > 'GPRINT:max:MAX:%7.2lf%ss',
> > 'GPRINT:rtt:AVERAGE:%7.2lf%ss',
> > 'GPRINT:rtt:LAST:%7.2lf%ss')
> >
> > The data was gathered from calls to ping and seems to work fine.
> >
> > However when I view the image that is created the text under the graph
> > is wrong.
> > There the \n from the COMMENT above should be I see A character which
> > looks like a V above a T
> > I have attached an example of a graph that shows the problem.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > MArk
Thanks for the response

> My first guess without testing (I don't graph from pyhon), is that the \n=
 are=20
> interpreted by Python.=20
> Try using \\n inside your strings, or using raw strings :
Tried this and it simply appears as \\n on the graph.

> r'COMMENT:"\n    maximum     average    current\n"'
> (note the r before the first quote).=20
This makes no difference.

MArk
>=20
> Hope this helps.