update CHANGELOG and get_default_filetype docstring

mspacek · mspacek · commit 6d6da543b8e1 · 2012-06-02T18:53:55.000-07:00
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2012-06-02 Add new Axes method and pyplot function, hist2d. - PO
 
+2012-05-31 Remove support for 'cairo.<format>' style of backend specification.
+           - Martin Spacek
+
 2012-05-29 pcolormesh now obeys the passed in "edgecolor" kwarg.
            To support this, the "shading" argument to pcolormesh now only
            takes "flat" or "gouraud".  To achieve the old "faceted" behavior,
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py b/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
@@ -2080,9 +2080,10 @@ def print_figure(self, filename, dpi=None, facecolor='w', edgecolor='w',
 
     def get_default_filetype(self):
         """
-        Get the default savefig file format as specified in rcParams.
-        If invalid, use .png. Overridden in backends that only support
-        a single file type.
+        Get the default savefig file format as specified in
+        rcParams['savefig.format']. If not supported, return 'png'.
+        Returned string excludes period. Overridden in backends that
+        only support a single file type.
         """
         default = rcParams['savefig.format']
         if default in self.get_supported_filetypes():
