small fixes recommended by reviews

Author: toddrjen

doc/users/whats_new.rst

@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ Ian Thomas added classes to perform interpolation within triangular grids
 the triangles in which points lie (
 :class:`~matplotlib.tri.TrapezoidMapTriFinder`).
 
+Left and right side axes titles
+-------------------------------
+Andrew Dawson added the ability to add axes titles flush with the left and
+right sides of the top of the axes using a new keyword argument `loc` to
+:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.title`.
+
 .. _whats-new-1-2:
 
 new in matplotlib-1.2

examples/pylab_examples/eventcollection_demo.py

@@ -51,4 +51,4 @@
 ax.set_title('line plot with data points')
 
 # display the plot
-fig.show()
+plt.show()

examples/pylab_examples/eventplot_demo.py

@@ -64,4 +64,4 @@
               linelengths=linelengths2, orientation='vertical')
 ax2.set_title('vertical eventplot 2')
 
-fig.show()
+plt.show()

lib/matplotlib/axes.py

@@ -3920,7 +3920,7 @@ def eventplot(self, positions, orientation='horizontal', lineoffsets=1,
         if len(colors) == 0:
             colors = [None]
 
-        if len(lineoffsets) == 1:
+        if len(lineoffsets) == 1 and len(positions) != 1:
             lineoffsets = np.tile(lineoffsets, len(positions))
             lineoffsets[0] = 0
             lineoffsets = np.cumsum(lineoffsets)
@@ -3935,20 +3935,20 @@ def eventplot(self, positions, orientation='horizontal', lineoffsets=1,
             linestyles = [linestyles] * len(positions)
 
         if len(lineoffsets) != len(positions):
-            raise ValueError('lineoffsets and positions are unequal sized \
-                              sequences')
+            raise ValueError('lineoffsets and positions are unequal sized '
+                             'sequences')
         if len(linelengths) != len(positions):
-            raise ValueError('linelengths and positions are unequal sized \
-                              sequences')
+            raise ValueError('linelengths and positions are unequal sized '
+                             'sequences')
         if len(linewidths) != len(positions):
-            raise ValueError('linewidths and positions are unequal sized \
-                              sequences')
+            raise ValueError('linewidths and positions are unequal sized '
+                             'sequences')
         if len(colors) != len(positions):
-            raise ValueError('colors and positions are unequal sized \
-                              sequences')
+            raise ValueError('colors and positions are unequal sized '
+                             'sequences')
         if len(linestyles) != len(positions):
-            raise ValueError('linestyles and positions are unequal sized \
-                              sequences')
+            raise ValueError('linestyles and positions are unequal sized '
+                             'sequences')
 
         colls = []
         for position, lineoffset, linelength, linewidth, color, linestyle in \

lib/matplotlib/collections.py

@@ -1143,8 +1143,8 @@ def __init__(self,
         if len(positions) == 0:
             segments = []
         elif hasattr(positions, 'ndim') and positions.ndim > 1:
-            raise ValueError('if positions is an ndarry it cannot have \
-                              dimensionality great than 1 ')
+            raise ValueError('if positions is an ndarry it cannot have '
+                             'dimensionality great than 1 ')
         elif (orientation is None or orientation.lower() == 'none' or
               orientation.lower() == 'horizontal'):
             positions.sort()