From 1b9f6ca005aa2dd1c383a766da3d05a5ff1a8c2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefano Rivera <stefano@rivera.za.net>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 01:25:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] formats may be unicode, not byte-string

---
 lib/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py b/lib/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py
index 917f6e7578cd..8b31d08d9e3c 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ def plot_directive(name, arguments, options, content, lineno,
     Handle the plot directive.
     """
     formats = setup.config.plot_formats
-    if type(formats) == str:
+    if isinstance(formats, basestring):
         formats = eval(formats)
 
     # The user may provide a filename *or* Python code content, but not both