polar plot fills entire plot while drawing line, bug or feature?

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Hi, I'm new to matplotlib and in need to draw a single impulse on a polar
plot, but don't know how to do it, so i just draw a line using
pylab.polar([0,0],[0,100],'g-')
but when i draw shorter lines or
pylab.polar([0,0],[0,0],'g-')
i get the whole plot filled with green color, instead of a single dot or a
very short line
does anyone else has similar issue? is this a bug or a feature that i can
turned off somewhere?
i'm using ubuntu.

Thank you for any help

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azerith wrote:

Hi, I'm new to matplotlib and in need to draw a single impulse on a polar
plot, but don't know how to do it, so i just draw a line using
pylab.polar([0,0],[0,100],'g-')
but when i draw shorter lines or pylab.polar([0,0],[0,0],'g-')
i get the whole plot filled with green color, instead of a single dot or a
very short line
does anyone else has similar issue? is this a bug or a feature that i can
turned off somewhere?
i'm using ubuntu.

Thank you for any help

It's a bug. You probably have quite an old version of mpl. A shiny new version was just released, and if you can install it in place of the ubuntu package, that particular bug will go away.

Eric