Don't silently fail when confronted with an unknown marker

mdboom · mdboom · commit cd5eda481f75 · 2011-08-17T09:29:18.000-04:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/lines.py b/lib/matplotlib/lines.py
@@ -745,11 +745,8 @@ def set_marker(self, marker):
 
         %(MarkerAccepts)s
         """
-        try:
-            self._marker.set_marker(marker)
-        except ValueError,e:
-            verbose.report(str(e))
-
+        self._marker.set_marker(marker)
+        
     def set_markeredgecolor(self, ec):
         """
         Set the marker edge color
