SC 24/11/2004

svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=710

Author: Steve Chaplin

lib/matplotlib/__init__.py

@@ -817,3 +817,15 @@ def tk_window_focus():
 
 # True if we are running under Py2EXE (or similar)
 FROZEN = hasattr(sys, 'frozen')
+
+
+class MPLError (Exception):
+    """Exception for Matplotlib errors
+    Attributes:
+        message -- explanation of the error
+    """
+    def __init__ (self, message):
+        self.message = message
+
+    def __str__ (self):
+        return self.message

lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_svg.py

@@ -358,11 +358,7 @@ def print_figure(self, filename, dpi=80,
         self.figure.set_facecolor(origfacecolor)
         self.figure.set_edgecolor(origedgecolor)
 
-        try:
-            fh = file(filename, 'w')
-        except IOError:
-            verbose.report_error('Backend SVG failed to save %s' % filename)
-            raise
+        fh = file(filename, 'w')
 
         print >>fh, renderer.get_svg()