When text argument is needed, convert to text if necessary

efiring · efiring · commit 463373197b25 · 2007-03-17T20:18:57.000Z
svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=3089
diff --git a/API_CHANGES b/API_CHANGES
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
+    Commands that pass an argument to the Text constructor or to
+    Text.set_text() now accept any object that can be converted
+    with '%s'.  This affects xlabel(), title(), etc.
+
     Barh now takes a **kwargs dict instead of most of the old
     arguments. This helps ensure that bar and barh are kept in sync,
     but as a side effect you can no longer pass e.g. color as a
     positional argument.
 
     ft2font.get_charmap() now returns a dict that maps character codes
     to glyph indices (until now it was reversed)
-    
+
     Moved data files into lib/matplotlib so that setuptools' develop
     mode works. Re-organized the mpl-data layout so that this source
     structure is maintained in the installation. (I.e. the 'fonts' and
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+2007-03-17 Text.set_text() accepts anything convertible with '%s' - EF
+
 2007-03-14 Add masked-array support to hist. - EF
 
 2007-03-03 Change barh to take a kwargs dict and pass it to bar.
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/text.py b/lib/matplotlib/text.py
@@ -143,8 +143,6 @@ def __init__(self,
         """
 
         Artist.__init__(self)
-        if not is_string_like(text):
-            raise TypeError('text must be a string type')
         self.cached = maxdict(5)
         self._x, self._y = x, y
 
@@ -729,11 +727,9 @@ def set_text(self, s):
         """
         Set the text string s
 
-        ACCEPTS: string
+        ACCEPTS: string or anything printable with '%s' conversion
         """
-        if not is_string_like(s):
-            raise TypeError("This doesn't look like a string: '%s'"%s)
-        self._text = s
+        self._text = '%s' % (s,)
         #self._substrings = scanner(s)  # support embedded mathtext
         self._substrings = []           # ignore embedded mathtext for now
 

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	`1`	`+2007-03-17 Text.set_text() accepts anything convertible with '%s' - EF`
	`2`	`+`
`1`	`3`	`2007-03-14 Add masked-array support to hist. - EF`
`2`	`4`
`3`	`5`	`2007-03-03 Change barh to take a kwargs dict and pass it to bar.`