With cairo /pycairo both at version 1.8.8, I'm still seeing crashes with paths

mdehoon · mdehoon · commit 1650927e43ab · 2010-02-27T17:00:53.000Z
longer than 20000 points or so (tried the gtkcairo backend on Mac OS X). So the
path length check is still needed.

svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=8162
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_cairo.py b/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_cairo.py
@@ -138,14 +138,17 @@ def convert_path(ctx, path, transform):
 
 
     def draw_path(self, gc, path, transform, rgbFace=None):
+        if len(path.vertices) > 18980: 	 
+            raise ValueError("The Cairo backend can not draw paths longer than 18980 points.") 	 
+
         ctx = gc.ctx
 
         transform = transform + \
             Affine2D().scale(1.0, -1.0).translate(0, self.height)
 
         ctx.new_path()
         self.convert_path(ctx, path, transform)
-
+	  	
         self._fill_and_stroke(ctx, rgbFace, gc.get_alpha())
 
     def draw_image(self, gc, x, y, im):
