MNT : make sure to cast to unicode

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit 5c9ccf09d4b3 · 2014-09-24T23:37:34.000-04:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/rcsetup.py b/lib/matplotlib/rcsetup.py
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ def validate_colorlist(s):
 def validate_stringlist(s):
     'return a list'
     if isinstance(s, six.string_types):
-        return [v.strip() for v in s.split(',')]
+        return [six.text_type(v.strip()) for v in s.split(',')]
     else:
         assert type(s) in [list, tuple]
         return [six.text_type(v) for v in s]
