matplotlib date formatting

Development matplotlib-devel
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Hello,

I recently updated matplotlib using macports, and it broke my plotting functions which plot date-value plots.

The reason was that my locale.getpreferredencoding() returned empty string in
cbook.py.

changing the code to the following solved my problem

On some systems, locale.getpreferredencoding returns None,

which can break unicode; and the sage project reports that

some systems have incorrect locale specifications, e.g.,

an encoding instead of a valid locale name.

try:
preferredencoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
if preferredencoding.strip() == ‘’:
raise ValueError
except ValueError:
preferredencoding = None
except ImportError:
preferredencoding = None

sorry for disturbing you

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Huziy Oleksandr

2

Thank you for the report. I committed a modified version of your change in svn 8433.

Eric

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On 06/13/2010 08:23 AM, Гузий Саша wrote:

Hello,

I recently updated matplotlib using macports, and it broke my plotting
functions which plot date-value plots.

The reason was that my locale.getpreferredencoding() returned empty
string in
cbook.py.

changing the code to the following solved my problem

# On some systems, locale.getpreferredencoding returns None,
# which can break unicode; and the sage project reports that
# some systems have incorrect locale specifications, e.g.,
# an encoding instead of a valid locale name.

try:
     preferredencoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
     if preferredencoding.strip() == '':
         raise ValueError
except ValueError:
     preferredencoding = None
except ImportError:
     preferredencoding = None

sorry for disturbing you
--
Huziy Oleksandr