Merge v1.4.x into master

doc/make.py

@@ -149,13 +149,31 @@ def all():
     ('mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/examples', '../../../examples/axes_grid/')
     ]
 
+symlink_warnings = []
 for link, target in required_symlinks:
+    if sys.platform == 'win32' and os.path.isfile(link):
+        # This is special processing that applies on platforms that don't deal
+        # with git symlinks -- probably only MS windows.
+        delete = False
+        with open(link, 'r') as content:
+            delete = target == content.read()
+        if delete:
+            symlink_warnings.append('deleted:  doc/{}'.format(link))
+            os.unlink(link)
+        else:
+            raise RuntimeError("doc/{} should be a directory or symlink -- it isn't")
     if not os.path.exists(link):
         if hasattr(os, 'symlink'):
             os.symlink(target, link)
         else:
+            symlink_warnings.append('files copied to {}'.format(link))
             shutil.copytree(os.path.join(link, '..', target), link)
 
+if sys.platform == 'win32' and len(symlink_warnings) > 0:
+    print('The following items related to symlinks will show up '+ 
+            'as spurious changes in your \'git status\':\n\t{}' 
+                    .format('\n\t'.join(symlink_warnings)))
+
 if len(sys.argv)>1:
     if '--small' in sys.argv[1:]:
         small_docs = True

doc/users/whats_new.rst

@@ -56,10 +56,28 @@ legibility through brightness variations. See
 `here <https://github.com/wistia/heatmap-palette>`_
 for more information.
 
-Documentation changes
----------------------
+The nbagg backend
+-----------------
+Phil Elson added a new backend, named "nbagg", which enables interactive
+figures in a live IPython notebook session. The backend makes use of the
+infrastructure developed for the webagg backend, which itself gives
+standalone server backed interactive figures in the browser, however nbagg
+does not require a dedicated matplotlib server as all communications are
+handled through the IPython Comm machinery.
+
+As with other backends nbagg can be enabled inside the IPython notebook with::
+
+    import matplotlib
+    matplotlib.use('nbagg')
+
+Once figures are created and then subsequently shown, they will placed in an
+interactive widget inside the notebook allowing panning and zooming in the
+same way as any other matplotlib backend. Because figures require a connection
+to the IPython notebook server for their interactivity, once the notebook is
+saved, each figure will be rendered as a static image - thus allowing
+non-interactive viewing of figures on services such as
+`nbviewer <http://nbviewer.ipython.org/>`_.
 
-Phil Elson rewrote of the documentation and userguide for both Legend and PathEffects (links needed).
 
 
 New plotting features
@@ -284,6 +302,7 @@ Controls whether figures are saved with a transparent
 background by default.  Previously `savefig` always defaulted
 to a non-transparent background.
 
+
 ``axes.titleweight``
 ````````````````````
 Added rcParam to control the weight of the title
@@ -296,6 +315,12 @@ an offset will be determined such that the tick labels are
 meaningful. If `False` then the full number will be formatted in all
 conditions.
 
+``nbagg.transparent`` added
+`````````````````````````````
+Controls whether nbagg figures have a transparent
+background. ``nbagg.transparent`` is ``True`` by default.
+
+
 XDG compliance
 ``````````````
 Matplotlib now looks for configuration files (both rcparams and style) in XDG
@@ -402,6 +427,12 @@ cause the context to be reset. This allows more than one distinct context to
 be present in documentation. To enable this option, use ``:context: reset``
 instead of ``:context:`` any time you want to reset the context.
 
+Legend and PathEffects documentation
+------------------------------------
+The :ref:`plotting-guide-legend` and :ref:`patheffects-guide` have both been
+updated to better reflect the full potential of each of these powerful
+features.
+
 Widgets
 -------
 

lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py

@@ -3064,6 +3064,8 @@ def boxplot(self, x, notch=False, sym=None, vert=True, whis=1.5,
                 flierprops = dict(linestyle='none', marker='',
                     markeredgecolor='none',
                     markerfacecolor='none')
+                # turn the fliers off just to be safe
+                showfliers = False
             # now process the symbol string
             else:
                 # process the symbol string

lib/matplotlib/collections.py

@@ -927,6 +927,15 @@ def get_numsides(self):
     def get_rotation(self):
         return self._rotation
 
+    @allow_rasterization
+    def draw(self, renderer):
+        self.set_sizes(self._sizes, self.figure.dpi)
+        self._transforms = [
+            transforms.Affine2D(x).rotate(-self._rotation).get_matrix()
+            for x in self._transforms
+        ]
+        Collection.draw(self, renderer)
+
 
 class StarPolygonCollection(RegularPolyCollection):
     """

lib/matplotlib/tests/test_collections.py

@@ -513,6 +513,22 @@ def test_polycollection_close():
     ax.set_ylim3d(0, 4)
 
 
+@image_comparison(baseline_images=['regularpolycollection_rotate'],
+                  extensions=['png'], remove_text=True)
+def test_regularpolycollection_rotate():
+    xx, yy = np.mgrid[:10, :10]
+    xy_points = np.transpose([xx.flatten(), yy.flatten()])
+    rotations = np.linspace(0, 2*np.pi, len(xy_points))
+
+    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
+    for xy, alpha in zip(xy_points, rotations):
+        col = mcollections.RegularPolyCollection(
+            4, sizes=(100,), rotation=alpha,
+            offsets=xy, transOffset=ax.transData)
+        ax.add_collection(col, autolim=True)
+    ax.autoscale_view()
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     import nose
     nose.runmodule(argv=['-s', '--with-doctest'], exit=False)