.. _github-stats:

Github stats

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GitHub stats for 2012/06/30 - 2012/09/07 (tag: v1.1.1)

These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.

The following 71 authors contributed 1151 commits.

* Aaron Boushley

* Ahmet Bakan

* Amy

* Andrew Dawson

* Arnaud Gardelein

* Ben Gamari

* Ben Root

* Bradley M. Froehle

* Brett Graham

* Bussonnier Matthias

* C\. Gohlke

* Christoph Dann

* Christoph Gohlke

* Corey Farwell

* Craig M

* Craig Tenney

* Damon McDougall

* Daniel Hyams

* Darren Dale

* David Huard

* Eric Firing

* Ezra Peisach

* Gellule Xg

* Graham Poulter

* Hubert Holin

* Ian Thomas

* Ignas Anikevicius (gns_ank)

* Jack (aka Daniel) Kelly

* Jack Kelly

* Jae-Joon Lee

* James R. Evans

* Jason Grout

* Jens H. Nielsen

* Joe Kington

* John Hunter

* Jonathan Waltman

* Jouni K. Seppänen

* Lance Hepler

* Marc Abramowitz

* Martin Spacek

* Matthew Emmett

* Matthias BUSSONNIER

* Michael Droettboom

* Michiel de Hoon

* Mike Kaufman

* Neil

* Nelle Varoquaux

* Nikolay Vyahhi

* Paul Ivanov

* Peter Würtz

* Phil Elson

* Piti Ongmongkolkul

* Robert Johansson

* Russell Owen

* Ryan May

* Simon Cross

* Stefan van der Walt

* Takafumi Arakaki

* Thomas A Caswell

* Thomas Kluyver

* Thomas Robitaille

* Tobias Hoppe

* Tony S Yu

* Zach Pincus

* bev-a-tron

* endolith

* goir

* mcelrath

* pelson

* pwuertz

* vbr

We closed a total of 349 issues, 123 pull requests and 226 regular issues;

this is the full list (generated with the script

:file:`tools/github_stats.py`):

Pull Requests (123):

* :ghpull:`1168`: PEP8 compliance on artist.py

* :ghpull:`1213`: Include username in tempdir

* :ghpull:`1182`: Bezier pep8

* :ghpull:`1206`: README and links fixes

* :ghpull:`1192`: Issue835 2: replacement for #835

* :ghpull:`1187`: Add a *simple* arrow example

* :ghpull:`1120`: FAIL: matplotlib.tests.test_transforms.test_pre_transform_plotting.test on Python 3.x

* :ghpull:`714`: Initial rework of gen_gallery.py

* :ghpull:`1150`: the affine matrix is calculated in the display coordinate for interpolation='none'

* :ghpull:`1145`: Fix formatter reset when twin{x,y}() is called

* :ghpull:`1201`: Fix typo in object-oriented API

* :ghpull:`1061`: Add log option to Axes.hist2d

* :ghpull:`1125`: Reduce object-oriented boilerplate for users

* :ghpull:`1195`: Fixed pickle tests to use the BufferIO object for python3 support.

* :ghpull:`1198`: Fixed python2.6 support (by removing use of viewvalues on a dict).

* :ghpull:`1197`: Handled future division changes for python3 (fixes #1194).

* :ghpull:`1162`: FIX nose.tools.assert_is is only supported with python2.7

* :ghpull:`803`: Return arrow collection as 2nd argument of streamplot.

* :ghpull:`1189`: BUG: Fix streamplot when velocity component is exactly zero.

* :ghpull:`1191`: Small bugfixes to the new pickle support.

* :ghpull:`1146`: Fix invalid transformation in InvertedSymmetricalLogTransform.

* :ghpull:`1169`: Subplot.twin[xy] returns a Subplot instance

* :ghpull:`1183`: FIX undefined elements were used at several places in the mlab module

* :ghpull:`498`: get_sample_data still broken on v.1.1.x

* :ghpull:`1170`: Uses tight_layout.get_subplotspec_list to check if all axes are compatible w/ tight_layout

* :ghpull:`1174`: closes #1173 - backporting python2.7 subprocess's check_output to be abl...

* :ghpull:`1175`: Pickling support added. Various whitespace fixes as a result of reading *lots* of code.

* :ghpull:`1098`: suppress exception upon quitting with qt4agg on osx

* :ghpull:`1171`: backend_pgf: handle OSError when testing for xelatex/pdflatex

* :ghpull:`1164`: doc: note contourf hatching in whats_new.rst

* :ghpull:`1153`: PEP8 on artist

* :ghpull:`1163`: tight_layout: fix regression for figures with non SubplotBase Axes

* :ghpull:`1159`: FIX assert_raises cannot be called with ``with``

* :ghpull:`1160`: backend_pgf: clarifications and fixes in documentation

* :ghpull:`1154`: six inclusion for dateutil on py3 doesn't work

* :ghpull:`1149`: Add Phil Elson's percentage histogram example

* :ghpull:`1158`: FIX - typo in lib/matplotlib/testing/compare.py

* :ghpull:`1155`: workaround for fixed dpi assumption in adjust_bbox_pdf

* :ghpull:`1142`: What's New: Python 3 paragraph

* :ghpull:`1130`: Fix writing pdf on stdout

* :ghpull:`832`: MPLCONFIGDIR tries to be created in read-only home

* :ghpull:`1140`: BUG: Fix fill_between when NaN values are present

* :ghpull:`1144`: Added tripcolor whats_new section.

* :ghpull:`1010`: Port part of errorfill from Tony Yu's mpltools.

* :ghpull:`1141`: backend_pgf: fix parentheses typo

* :ghpull:`1114`: Make grid accept alpha rcParam

* :ghpull:`1124`: PGF backend, fix #1116, #1118 and #1128

* :ghpull:`983`: Issues with dateutil and pytz

* :ghpull:`1133`: figure.py: import warnings, and make imports absolute

* :ghpull:`1132`: clean out obsolete matplotlibrc-related bits to close #1123

* :ghpull:`1131`: Cleanup after the gca test.

* :ghpull:`563`: sankey.add() has mutable defaults

* :ghpull:`731`: Plot limit with transform

* :ghpull:`1107`: Added %s support for labels.

* :ghpull:`774`: Allow automatic use of tight_layout.

* :ghpull:`1122`: DOC: Add streamplot description to What's New page

* :ghpull:`1111`: Fixed transoffset example from failing.

* :ghpull:`840`: Documentation Errors for specgram

* :ghpull:`1088`: For a text artist, if it has a _bbox_patch associated with it, the contains test should reflect this.

* :ghpull:`986`: Add texinfo build target in doc/make.py

* :ghpull:`1076`: PGF backend for XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX support

* :ghpull:`1090`: External transform api

* :ghpull:`1108`: Fix documentation warnings

* :ghpull:`861`: Add rcfile function (which loads rc params from a given file).

* :ghpull:`1062`: increased the padding on FileMovieWritter.frame_format_str

* :ghpull:`1100`: Doc multi version master

* :ghpull:`1105`: Fixed comma between tests.

* :ghpull:`1095`: Colormap byteorder bug

* :ghpull:`1103`: colorbar: correct error introduced in commit 089024; closes #1102

* :ghpull:`1067`: Support multi-version documentation on the website

* :ghpull:`1031`: Added 'capthick' kwarg to errorbar()

* :ghpull:`1074`: Added broadcasting support in some mplot3d methods

* :ghpull:`1064`: Locator interface

* :ghpull:`850`: Added tripcolor triangle-centred colour values.

* :ghpull:`1093`: Exposed the callback id for the default key press handler so that it can be easily diabled. Fixes #215.

* :ghpull:`1065`: fixed conversion from pt to inch in tight_layout

* :ghpull:`1082`: doc: in pcolormesh docstring, say what it does.

* :ghpull:`1078`: doc: note that IDLE doesn't work with interactive mode.

* :ghpull:`1071`: patches.polygon: fix bug in handling of path closing, #1018.

* :ghpull:`1057`: Contour norm scaling

* :ghpull:`1056`: Test framework cleanups

* :ghpull:`778`: Make tests faster

* :ghpull:`1024`: broken links in the gallery

* :ghpull:`1054`: stix_fonts_demo.py fails with bad refcount

* :ghpull:`960`: Fixed logformatting for non integer bases.

* :ghpull:`897`: GUI icon in Tkinter

* :ghpull:`1053`: Move Python 3 import of reload() to the module that uses it

* :ghpull:`1049`: Update examples/user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx2.py

* :ghpull:`1050`: Update examples/user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx4.py

* :ghpull:`1051`: Update examples/user_interfaces/mathtext_wx.py

* :ghpull:`1052`: Update examples/user_interfaces/wxcursor_demo.py

* :ghpull:`1047`: Enable building on Python 3.3 for Windows

* :ghpull:`1036`: Move all figures to the front with a non-interactive show() in macosx backend.

* :ghpull:`1042`: Three more plot_directive configuration options

* :ghpull:`1022`: contour: map extended ranges to "under" and "over" values

* :ghpull:`1007`: modifying GTK3 example to use pygobject, and adding a simple example to demonstrate NavigationToolbar in GTK3

* :ghpull:`1004`: Added savefig.bbox option to matplotlibrc

* :ghpull:`976`: Fix embedding_in_qt4_wtoolbar.py on Python 3

* :ghpull:`1034`: MdH = allow compilation on recent Mac OS X without compiler warnings

* :ghpull:`1028`: Fix use() so that it is possible to reset the rcParam.

* :ghpull:`1033`: Py3k: reload->imp.reload

* :ghpull:`1002`: Fixed potential overflow exception in the lines.contains() method

* :ghpull:`1025`: Timers

* :ghpull:`989`: Animation subprocess bug

* :ghpull:`898`: Added warnings for easily confusible subplot/subplots invokations

* :ghpull:`963`: Add detection of file extension for file-like objects

* :ghpull:`973`: Fix sankey.py pep8 and py3 compatibility

* :ghpull:`972`: Force closing PIL image files

* :ghpull:`981`: Fix pathpatch3d_demo.py on Python 3

* :ghpull:`980`: Fix basic_units.py on Python 3. PEP8 and PyLint cleanup.

* :ghpull:`1014`: qt4: remove duplicate file save button; and remove trailing whitespace

* :ghpull:`1011`: fix for bug #996 and related issues

* :ghpull:`985`: support current and future FreeBSD releases

* :ghpull:`1000`: Fix traceback for vlines/hlines, when an empty list or array passed in for x/y.

* :ghpull:`994`: Fix bug in pcolorfast introduced by #901

* :ghpull:`993`: Fix typo

* :ghpull:`908`: use Qt window title as default savefig filename

* :ghpull:`971`: Close fd temp file following rec2csv_bad_shape test

* :ghpull:`851`: Simple GUI interface enhancements

* :ghpull:`979`: Fix test_mouseclicks.py on Python 3

* :ghpull:`977`: Fix lasso_selector_demo.py on Python 3

* :ghpull:`970`: Fix tiff and jpeg export via PIL

* :ghpull:`961`: Issue 807 auto minor locator

Issues (226):

* :ghissue:`1096`: Documentation bug: pyplot.arrow does not list enough keywords to successfully draw an arrow

* :ghissue:`1168`: PEP8 compliance on artist.py

* :ghissue:`1213`: Include username in tempdir

* :ghissue:`1182`: Bezier pep8

* :ghissue:`1177`: Handled baseline image folder identification for non matplotlib projects.

* :ghissue:`1091`: Update README.txt for v1.2

* :ghissue:`1206`: README and links fixes

* :ghissue:`1192`: Issue835 2: replacement for #835

* :ghissue:`1187`: Add a *simple* arrow example

* :ghissue:`1120`: FAIL: matplotlib.tests.test_transforms.test_pre_transform_plotting.test on Python 3.x

* :ghissue:`835`: add documentation for figure show method in backend_bases and backend_template

* :ghissue:`714`: Initial rework of gen_gallery.py

* :ghissue:`1150`: the affine matrix is calculated in the display coordinate for interpolation='none'

* :ghissue:`1087`: Update whats new section

* :ghissue:`385`: BUG: plot_directive: look for plot script files relative to the .rst file

* :ghissue:`1110`: twiny overrides formatter and adds another x-axis

* :ghissue:`1145`: Fix formatter reset when twin{x,y}() is called

* :ghissue:`547`: undocumented scatter marker definition change

* :ghissue:`1201`: Fix typo in object-oriented API

* :ghissue:`1061`: Add log option to Axes.hist2d

* :ghissue:`1094`: Feature request - make it simpler to use full OO interface

* :ghissue:`1125`: Reduce object-oriented boilerplate for users

* :ghissue:`1085`: Images shifted relative to other plot feature in vector graphic output formats

* :ghissue:`1195`: Fixed pickle tests to use the BufferIO object for python3 support.

* :ghissue:`1198`: Fixed python2.6 support (by removing use of viewvalues on a dict).

* :ghissue:`1194`: Streamplot result python version dependent

* :ghissue:`1197`: Handled future division changes for python3 (fixes #1194).

* :ghissue:`557`: Crash during date axis setup

* :ghissue:`600`: errorbar(): kwarg 'markevery' not working as expected.

* :ghissue:`174`: Memory leak in example simple_idle_wx.py

* :ghissue:`232`: format in plot_direcitive sphinx>=1.0.6 compatible patch

* :ghissue:`1162`: FIX nose.tools.assert_is is only supported with python2.7

* :ghissue:`1165`: tight_layout fails on twinx, twiny

* :ghissue:`803`: Return arrow collection as 2nd argument of streamplot.

* :ghissue:`1189`: BUG: Fix streamplot when velocity component is exactly zero.

* :ghissue:`1191`: Small bugfixes to the new pickle support.

* :ghissue:`323`: native format for figures

* :ghissue:`1146`: Fix invalid transformation in InvertedSymmetricalLogTransform.

* :ghissue:`1169`: Subplot.twin[xy] returns a Subplot instance

* :ghissue:`1183`: FIX undefined elements were used at several places in the mlab module

* :ghissue:`498`: get_sample_data still broken on v.1.1.x

* :ghissue:`1170`: Uses tight_layout.get_subplotspec_list to check if all axes are compatible w/ tight_layout

* :ghissue:`1173`: The PGF backend only works on python2.7 and +

* :ghissue:`1174`: closes #1173 - backporting python2.7 subprocess's check_output to be abl...

* :ghissue:`1175`: Pickling support added. Various whitespace fixes as a result of reading *lots* of code.

* :ghissue:`1179`: Attempt at making travis output shorter.

* :ghissue:`1020`: Picklable figures

* :ghissue:`1098`: suppress exception upon quitting with qt4agg on osx

* :ghissue:`1171`: backend_pgf: handle OSError when testing for xelatex/pdflatex

* :ghissue:`1164`: doc: note contourf hatching in whats_new.rst

* :ghissue:`606`: Unable to configure grid using axisartist

* :ghissue:`1153`: PEP8 on artist

* :ghissue:`1163`: tight_layout: fix regression for figures with non SubplotBase Axes

* :ghissue:`1117`: ERROR: matplotlib.tests.test_axes.test_contour_colorbar.test fails on Python 3

* :ghissue:`1159`: FIX assert_raises cannot be called with ``with``

* :ghissue:`206`: hist normed=True problem?

* :ghissue:`1160`: backend_pgf: clarifications and fixes in documentation

* :ghissue:`1154`: six inclusion for dateutil on py3 doesn't work

* :ghissue:`320`: hist plot in percent

* :ghissue:`1149`: Add Phil Elson's percentage histogram example

* :ghissue:`1158`: FIX - typo in lib/matplotlib/testing/compare.py

* :ghissue:`1135`: Problems with bbox_inches='tight'

* :ghissue:`1155`: workaround for fixed dpi assumption in adjust_bbox_pdf

* :ghissue:`1142`: What's New: Python 3 paragraph

* :ghissue:`1138`: tight_bbox made assumptions about the display-units without checking the figure

* :ghissue:`1130`: Fix writing pdf on stdout

* :ghissue:`832`: MPLCONFIGDIR tries to be created in read-only home

* :ghissue:`1140`: BUG: Fix fill_between when NaN values are present

* :ghissue:`1144`: Added tripcolor whats_new section.

* :ghissue:`1010`: Port part of errorfill from Tony Yu's mpltools.

* :ghissue:`1141`: backend_pgf: fix parentheses typo

* :ghissue:`1114`: Make grid accept alpha rcParam

* :ghissue:`1118`: ERROR: matplotlib.tests.test_backend_pgf.test_pdflatex on Python 3.x

* :ghissue:`1116`: ERROR: matplotlib.tests.test_backend_pgf.test_xelatex

* :ghissue:`1124`: PGF backend, fix #1116, #1118 and #1128

* :ghissue:`745`: Cannot run tests with Python 3.x on MacOS 10.7

* :ghissue:`983`: Issues with dateutil and pytz

* :ghissue:`1137`: PGF/Tikz: savefig could not handle a filename

* :ghissue:`1128`: PGF back-end fails on simple graph

* :ghissue:`1133`: figure.py: import warnings, and make imports absolute

* :ghissue:`1123`: Rationalize the number of ancillary (default matplotlibrc) files

* :ghissue:`1132`: clean out obsolete matplotlibrc-related bits to close #1123

* :ghissue:`1131`: Cleanup after the gca test.

* :ghissue:`563`: sankey.add() has mutable defaults

* :ghissue:`238`: patch for qt4 backend

* :ghissue:`731`: Plot limit with transform

* :ghissue:`1107`: Added %s support for labels.

* :ghissue:`720`: Bug with bbox_inches='tight'

* :ghissue:`1084`: doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/transoffset.py not working as expected

* :ghissue:`774`: Allow automatic use of tight_layout.

* :ghissue:`1122`: DOC: Add streamplot description to What's New page

* :ghissue:`1111`: Fixed transoffset example from failing.

* :ghissue:`840`: Documentation Errors for specgram

* :ghissue:`1088`: For a text artist, if it has a _bbox_patch associated with it, the contains test should reflect this.

* :ghissue:`1119`: ERROR: matplotlib.tests.test_image.test_imread_pil_uint16 on Python 3.x

* :ghissue:`353`: Improved output of text in SVG and PDF

* :ghissue:`291`: size information from print_figure

* :ghissue:`986`: Add texinfo build target in doc/make.py

* :ghissue:`1076`: PGF backend for XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX support

* :ghissue:`1090`: External transform api

* :ghissue:`1108`: Fix documentation warnings

* :ghissue:`811`: Allow tripcolor to directly plot triangle-centered functions

* :ghissue:`1005`: imshow with big-endian data types on OS X

* :ghissue:`892`: Update animation.py docstrings to "raw" Sphinx format

* :ghissue:`861`: Add rcfile function (which loads rc params from a given file).

* :ghissue:`988`: Trim white spaces while saving from Navigation toolbar

* :ghissue:`670`: Add a printer button to the navigation toolbar

* :ghissue:`1062`: increased the padding on FileMovieWritter.frame_format_str

* :ghissue:`188`: MacOSX backend brings up GUI unnecessarily

* :ghissue:`1041`: make.osx SDK location needs updating

* :ghissue:`1043`: Fix show command for Qt backend to raise window to top

* :ghissue:`1046`: test failing on master

* :ghissue:`962`: Bug with figure.savefig(): using AGG, PIL, JPG and StringIO

* :ghissue:`1045`: 1.1.1 not in pypi

* :ghissue:`1100`: Doc multi version master

* :ghissue:`1106`: Published docs for v1.1.1 missing pyplot.polar

* :ghissue:`569`: 3D bar graphs with variable depth

* :ghissue:`359`: new plot style: stackplot

* :ghissue:`297`: pip/easy_install installs old version of matplotlib

* :ghissue:`152`: Scatter3D: arguments (c,s,...) are not taken into account

* :ghissue:`1105`: Fixed comma between tests.

* :ghissue:`1095`: Colormap byteorder bug

* :ghissue:`1102`: examples/pylab_examples/contour_demo.py fails

* :ghissue:`1103`: colorbar: correct error introduced in commit 089024; closes #1102

* :ghissue:`1067`: Support multi-version documentation on the website

* :ghissue:`1031`: Added 'capthick' kwarg to errorbar()

* :ghissue:`1074`: Added broadcasting support in some mplot3d methods

* :ghissue:`1032`: Axesbase

* :ghissue:`1064`: Locator interface

* :ghissue:`850`: Added tripcolor triangle-centred colour values.

* :ghissue:`1059`: Matplotlib figure window freezes during interactive mode

* :ghissue:`215`: skipping mpl-axes-interaction during key_press_event\'s

* :ghissue:`1093`: Exposed the callback id for the default key press handler so that it can be easily diabled. Fixes #215.

* :ghissue:`909`: Log Formatter for tick labels can't handle non-integer base

* :ghissue:`1065`: fixed conversion from pt to inch in tight_layout

* :ghissue:`1086`: Problem with subplot / matplotlib.dates interaction

* :ghissue:`782`: mplot3d: grid doesn't update after adding a slider to figure?

* :ghissue:`703`: pcolormesh help not helpful

* :ghissue:`1082`: doc: in pcolormesh docstring, say what it does.

* :ghissue:`1068`: Add stairstep plotting functionality

* :ghissue:`1078`: doc: note that IDLE doesn't work with interactive mode.

* :ghissue:`704`: ignore case in `edgecolors` keyword in `pcolormesh` (and possibly other places)

* :ghissue:`708`: set_clim not working with NonUniformImage

* :ghissue:`768`: Add "tight_layout" button to toolbar

* :ghissue:`791`: v1.1.1 release candidate testing

* :ghissue:`844`: imsave/imshow and cmaps

* :ghissue:`939`: test failure: matplotlib.tests.test_mathtext.mathfont_stix_14_test.test

* :ghissue:`875`: Replace "jet" with "hot" as the default colormap

* :ghissue:`881`: "Qualitative" colormaps represented as continuous

* :ghissue:`1072`: For a text artist, if it has a _bbox_patch associated with it, the conta...

* :ghissue:`1071`: patches.polygon: fix bug in handling of path closing, #1018.

* :ghissue:`1018`: BUG: check for closed path in Polygon.set_xy()

* :ghissue:`1066`: fix limit calculation of step* histogram

* :ghissue:`1073`: Mplot3d/input broadcast

* :ghissue:`906`: User-specified medians and conf. intervals in boxplots

* :ghissue:`899`: Update for building matplotlib under Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and XCode > 4.2

* :ghissue:`1057`: Contour norm scaling

* :ghissue:`1035`: Added a GTK3 implementation of the SubplotTool window.

* :ghissue:`807`: Crash when using zoom tools on a plot: AutoMinorLocator after MultipleLocator gives "ValueError: Need at least two major ticks to find minor tick locations"

* :ghissue:`1023`: New button to toolbar for tight_layout.

* :ghissue:`1056`: Test framework cleanups

* :ghissue:`778`: Make tests faster

* :ghissue:`1048`: some matplotlib examples incompatible with wxpython 2.9

* :ghissue:`1024`: broken links in the gallery

* :ghissue:`1054`: stix_fonts_demo.py fails with bad refcount

* :ghissue:`960`: Fixed logformatting for non integer bases.

* :ghissue:`897`: GUI icon in Tkinter

* :ghissue:`1053`: Move Python 3 import of reload() to the module that uses it

* :ghissue:`1049`: Update examples/user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx2.py

* :ghissue:`1050`: Update examples/user_interfaces/embedding_in_wx4.py

* :ghissue:`1051`: Update examples/user_interfaces/mathtext_wx.py

* :ghissue:`1052`: Update examples/user_interfaces/wxcursor_demo.py

* :ghissue:`1047`: Enable building on Python 3.3 for Windows

* :ghissue:`819`: Add new plot style: stackplot

* :ghissue:`1036`: Move all figures to the front with a non-interactive show() in macosx backend.

* :ghissue:`1042`: Three more plot_directive configuration options

* :ghissue:`1044`: plots not being displayed in OSX 10.8

* :ghissue:`1022`: contour: map extended ranges to "under" and "over" values

* :ghissue:`1007`: modifying GTK3 example to use pygobject, and adding a simple example to demonstrate NavigationToolbar in GTK3

* :ghissue:`1004`: Added savefig.bbox option to matplotlibrc

* :ghissue:`976`: Fix embedding_in_qt4_wtoolbar.py on Python 3

* :ghissue:`1013`: compilation warnings in _macosx.m

* :ghissue:`1034`: MdH = allow compilation on recent Mac OS X without compiler warnings

* :ghissue:`964`: Animation clear_temp=False reuses old frames

* :ghissue:`1028`: Fix use() so that it is possible to reset the rcParam.

* :ghissue:`1033`: Py3k: reload->imp.reload

* :ghissue:`1002`: Fixed potential overflow exception in the lines.contains() method

* :ghissue:`1025`: Timers

* :ghissue:`989`: Animation subprocess bug

* :ghissue:`898`: Added warnings for easily confusible subplot/subplots invokations

* :ghissue:`963`: Add detection of file extension for file-like objects

* :ghissue:`973`: Fix sankey.py pep8 and py3 compatibility

* :ghissue:`972`: Force closing PIL image files

* :ghissue:`981`: Fix pathpatch3d_demo.py on Python 3

* :ghissue:`980`: Fix basic_units.py on Python 3. PEP8 and PyLint cleanup.

* :ghissue:`996`: macosx backend broken by #901: QuadMesh fails so colorbar fails

* :ghissue:`1017`: axes.Axes.step() function not documented

* :ghissue:`1014`: qt4: remove duplicate file save button; and remove trailing whitespace

* :ghissue:`655`: implement path_effects for Line2D objects

* :ghissue:`999`: pcolormesh edgecolor of "None"

* :ghissue:`1011`: fix for bug #996 and related issues

* :ghissue:`1009`: Simplify import statement

* :ghissue:`982`: Supported FreeBSD10 as per #225

* :ghissue:`225`: Add support for FreeBSD >6.x

* :ghissue:`985`: support current and future FreeBSD releases

* :ghissue:`1006`: MacOSX backend throws exception when plotting a quadmesh

* :ghissue:`1000`: Fix traceback for vlines/hlines, when an empty list or array passed in for x/y.

* :ghissue:`1001`: Bug fix for issue #955

* :ghissue:`994`: Fix bug in pcolorfast introduced by #901

* :ghissue:`993`: Fix typo

* :ghissue:`908`: use Qt window title as default savefig filename

* :ghissue:`830`: standard key for closing figure ("q")

* :ghissue:`971`: Close fd temp file following rec2csv_bad_shape test

* :ghissue:`851`: Simple GUI interface enhancements

* :ghissue:`979`: Fix test_mouseclicks.py on Python 3

* :ghissue:`977`: Fix lasso_selector_demo.py on Python 3

* :ghissue:`970`: Fix tiff and jpeg export via PIL

* :ghissue:`707`: key_press_event in pyqt4 embedded matplotlib

* :ghissue:`243`: Debug version/symbols for win32

* :ghissue:`255`: Classes in _transforms.h in global namespace

* :ghissue:`961`: Issue 807 auto minor locator

* :ghissue:`345`: string symbol markers ("scattertext" plot)

* :ghissue:`247`: DLL load failed

* :ghissue:`808`: pip install matplotlib fails

* :ghissue:`168`: setupext.py incorrect for Mac OS X

* :ghissue:`213`: Fixing library path in setupext.py for Mac