Merge pull request #5710 from tacaswell/fix_axproperties_warning

jenshnielsen · jenshnielsen · commit 4356809cfa5e · 2015-12-26T10:38:23.000+01:00
FIX: suppress warning in Artist.properties
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/artist.py b/lib/matplotlib/artist.py
@@ -1276,7 +1276,9 @@ def properties(self):
                 continue
 
             try:
-                val = func()
+                with warnings.catch_warnings():
+                    warnings.simplefilter('ignore')
+                    val = func()
             except:
                 continue
             else:
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_artist.py b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_artist.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function,
                         unicode_literals)
-
+import warnings
 from matplotlib.externals import six
 
 import io
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import matplotlib.patches as mpatches
+import matplotlib.lines as mlines
 import matplotlib.path as mpath
 import matplotlib.transforms as mtrans
 import matplotlib.collections as mcollections
@@ -176,6 +177,16 @@ def test_remove():
     assert_true(ax.stale)
 
 
+@cleanup
+def test_properties():
+    ln = mlines.Line2D([], [])
+    with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
+        # Cause all warnings to always be triggered.
+        warnings.simplefilter("always")
+        ln.properties()
+        assert len(w) == 0
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     import nose
     nose.runmodule(argv=['-s', '--with-doctest'], exit=False)
