Merge pull request matplotlib#104 from stefanor/formats-basestring

mdboom · mdboom · commit a99aef481bc0 · 2011-05-06T12:06:19.000-07:00
0.99.x documentation build failure fix (plot_directive formats can be unicode)
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py b/lib/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ def plot_directive(name, arguments, options, content, lineno,
     Handle the plot directive.
     """
     formats = setup.config.plot_formats
-    if type(formats) == str:
+    if isinstance(formats, basestring):
         formats = eval(formats)
 
     # The user may provide a filename *or* Python code content, but not both
