The previous fix broke the current behaviour of being able to explicitly set a new unit type for a

James Evans · James Evans · commit 8f36d8eaac6c · 2008-09-17T15:47:02.000Z
specific axis after it was already set.  This fixes that.

svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=6100
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes.py
@@ -1391,11 +1391,17 @@ def _process_unit_info(self, xdata=None, ydata=None, kwargs=None):
             if xunits!=self.xaxis.units:
                 #print '\tkw setting xunits', xunits
                 self.xaxis.set_units(xunits)
+                # If the units being set imply a different converter, we need to update.
+                if xdata is not None:
+                    self.xaxis.update_units(xdata)
 
             yunits = kwargs.pop('yunits', self.yaxis.units)
             if yunits!=self.yaxis.units:
                 #print '\tkw setting yunits', yunits
                 self.yaxis.set_units(yunits)
+                # If the units being set imply a different converter, we need to update.
+                if ydata is not None:
+                    self.yaxis.update_units(ydata)
 
     def in_axes(self, mouseevent):
         '''
