Make is_string_like work with boost python wrapped sequences

efiring · efiring · commit 4a40ba53295b · 2009-01-17T04:22:07.000Z
svn path=/branches/v0_98_5_maint/; revision=6802
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-2009-11-16 Bugfix of C typedef of MPL_Int64 that was failing on
+2009-01-16 Fix bug in is_string_like so it doesn't raise an
+           unnecessary exception. - EF
+
+2009-01-16 Bugfix of C typedef of MPL_Int64 that was failing on
            Windows XP 64 bit, as reported by George Goussard on numpy
            mailing list. - ADS
 
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/cbook.py b/lib/matplotlib/cbook.py
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ def is_string_like(obj):
         else:
             return False
     try: obj + ''
-    except (TypeError, ValueError): return False
+    except: return False
     return True
 
 def is_sequence_of_strings(obj):
