horizontalalignment 'left' and 'right' do not handle spacing consistently

[jason-sachs]

horizontalalignment respects leading spaces with left-alignment, ignores trailing spaces

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8,6))
ax = fig.gca()
ax.plot([0,0],[-1,1],':')
for k in xrange(5):
    spc = " "*k
    ax.text(0.0,0.1*k,spc+"%d leading spaces"%k, ha='left')
    ax.text(0.0,0.1*k,("%d trailing spaces"%k)+spc, ha='right')

[jason-sachs]

It shouldn't ignore any spaces... otherwise why would I put them there?

[OceanWolf]

Actually I see it working fine on master...

[jason-sachs]

oh? hmm, let me grab version info...

[jason-sachs]

darnit, I'm still using 1.3.1. Let me try upgrading...

[OceanWolf]

The image produced from a copy-paste of your example...

[jason-sachs]

just tried it in 1.4.3 (latest Anaconda version), got same result (ignores trailing spaces). Any way to see if it has been fixed recently or if it is a platform-specific bug?

[OceanWolf]

I have just run your code on 1.4.2 and I do see the bug, so yes, it seems it has already been fixed. Kinda new here so I don't know all the bugs that have been fixed, but yes, definitely fixed. You can either try out the master, or wait until the next full release in a few months time.

[tacaswell]

@mdboom Do you remember fixing this?

[jason-sachs]

You can either try out the master, or wait until the next full release in a few months time.

I'll wait; I just used the annotate() function with offset points to draw text with an offset.

It might be nice to add an offset_points kwarg... the text() function is so much easier to use than annotate() if you just need text and no arrows.

[petehuang]

Reconfirming the fix (this time with 1.5.3). Can we close?

[QuLogic]

Works for me too.