undo that last change, mdboom had a different solution that I overlooked

ddale · ddale · commit 62b9e020d882 · 2007-12-06T18:38:55.000Z
svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=4650
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-2007-12-06 fixed a bug in savefig, saving to a nonexistent directory 
-           would result in a crash in some circumstances. Closes bug
-           1699614 - DSD
-
 2007-12-06 fixed a bug in rcsetup, see bug 1845057 - DSD
 
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diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/figure.py b/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
@@ -773,9 +773,6 @@ def savefig(self, *args, **kwargs):
 
         format - one of the file extensions supported by the active backend.
         """
-        path = os.path.abspath(os.path.split(args[0])[0])
-        if not os.access(path, os.W_OK):
-            raise IOError('%s is not a writeable directory'%path)
 
         for key in ('dpi', 'facecolor', 'edgecolor'):
             if not kwargs.has_key(key):
