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here's the old way

	cut and paste some numbers from a web page
	like the number of live births by year
	dump it in a file named moo
	run gnuplot
	and say

		plot '/tmp/moo' w l 3

	boom
	default graph to show friends

the thing is
in the new way [python import pylab plot show]
what's the best default graph
i wanna say what?
ipython -c 'readplotfile blah ... parse file ugh ...'
um

i need a one liner
ya know

find the baby boom

1910    2777000       30.1
1915    2965000       29.5
1920    2950000       27.7
1925    2909000       25.1
1930    2618000       21.3
1935    2377000       18.7
1940    2559000       19.4
1945    2858000       20.4
1950    3632000       24.1
1952   3913000       25.1
1953   3965000       25.1
1954   4078000       25.3
1955    4104000       25.0
1956   4218000       25.2
1957   4308000       25.3
1958   4255000       24.5
1959   4295000       24.3
1960   4257850       23.7
1961   4268326       23.3
1962   4167362       22.4
1963   4098020       21.7
1964   4027490       21.0
1965   3760358       19.4
1966   3606274       18.4
1967   3520959       17.8
1968   3501564       17.5
1969   3600206       17.8
1970   3731386       18.4
1971   3555970       17.2
1972    3258411       15.6
1973    3136965       14.9
1974    3159958       14.9
1975    3144198       14.8
1976    3167788       14.8
1977    3326632       15.4
1978    3333279       15.3
1979    3494398       15.9
1980    3612258       15.9
1982    3680537       15.9
1983    3638933       15.5
1984    3669141       15.5
1985    3760561       15.8
1986    3731000       15.5
1987    3829000       15.7
1988    3913000       15.9
1989    4021000       16.2
1990    4179000       16.7
1991    4111000       16.2
1992    4084000       16.0
1993    4039000       15.7
1994    3979000       15.3
1995    3892000       14.8
1996    3899000       14.7
1997    3882000       14.5
1998    3941553       14.6
1999    3959417       14.5
2000    4058814       14.7
2001    4025933       14.1
2002    4021726       13.9
2003    4089950       14.1
2004    4112052       14.0
2005    4138349       14.0

I think I've found a bug in matplotlib.  I use Sage, which is based on
Python and included matplotlib.

sage: import pylab
sage: pylab.text(0.2, 0.2, r"$\left(2a = b\right)$")  # note \left(
and \right) work
<matplotlib.text.Text object at 0x10daaf950>
sage: pylab.text(0.2, 0.5, r"$(2 \, a = b)$")       # note \, works
<matplotlib.text.Text object at 0x10dab9c90>
sage: pylab.savefig('a.png')
sage: pylab.text(0.2, 0.7, r"$\left(2 \, a = b\right)$")  # but
together they don't
<matplotlib.text.Text object at 0x10dad9b10>
sage: pylab.savefig('b.png')
ERROR: An unexpected error occurred while tokenizing input
...
AttributeError: 'Kern' object has no attribute 'height'

Is this repeatable for anyone else?  Would the full traceback be helpful?

-- 
J. H. Palmieri
jhp...@gm...