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What's New: Python 3 paragraph #1142

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Add What's New section for Python 3.x support. Address #1087 in part.
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Clarify which backends do and don't work.
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Expand Up @@ -17,6 +17,25 @@ This page just covers the highlights -- for the full story, see the
new in matplotlib-1.2
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Python 3.x support
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Matplotlib 1.2 is the first version to support Python 3.x,
specifically Python 3.1 and 3.2. To make this happen in a reasonable
way, we also had to drop support for Python versions earlier than 2.6.

This work was done by Michael Droettboom, the Cape Town Python Users'
Group, many others and supported financially in part by the SAGE
project.

The following GUI backends work under Python 3.x: Gtk3Agg, Gtk3Cairo,
Qt4Agg, TkAgg and MacOSX. The other backends do not yet have workable
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Perhaps a a gui make it clear that the pdf, ps ect backends work. I.e "The other gui backends do not ..."

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Good point. Will fix.

bindings for Python 3.x, but continue to work on Python 2.6 and 2.7.

Features that depend on the Python Imaging Library, such as JPEG
handling, do not work, since the version of PIL for Python 3.x is not
sufficiently mature.

PGF/TikZ backend
----------------
Peter Würtz wrote a backend that allows matplotlib to export figures as
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