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Add What's New section for Python 3.x support. Address #1087 in part.
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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,
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specifically Python 3.1 and 3.2. To make this happen in a reasonable
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way, we also had to drop support for Python versions earlier than 2.6.
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This work was done by Michael Droettboom, the Cape Town Python Users'
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Group, many others and supported financially in part by the SAGE
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project.
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The following GUI backends work under Python 3.x: Gtk3Agg, Gtk3Cairo,
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Qt4Agg, TkAgg and MacOSX. The other backends do not yet have workable
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bindings for Python 3.x, but continue to work on Python 2.6 and 2.7.
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Features that depend on the Python Imaging Library, such as JPEG
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handling, do not work, since the version of PIL for Python 3.x is not
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sufficiently mature.
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PGF/TikZ backend
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Peter Würtz wrote a backend that allows matplotlib to export figures as

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