Instead of trying to merge the containment attribute dicts from both the text

Daniel Hyams · Daniel Hyams · commit 834f4cb5487b · 2012-08-16T21:58:01.000-04:00
and the bounding box, the bounding box's attributes are now a key within the
returned attribute dict.  The key is "bbox_patch".
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/text.py b/lib/matplotlib/text.py
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ def contains(self,mouseevent):
         if self._bbox_patch:
             patch_inside, patch_cattr =  self._bbox_patch.contains(mouseevent)
             inside = inside or patch_inside
-            cattr.update(patch_cattr) 
+            cattr["bbox_patch"] = patch_cattr
 
         return inside, cattr 
 
