python-gdchart2: Can't use a list as data for setData method

[Benoit Caron]

Package: python-gdchart2
Version: 0.beta1-3.4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Generating a PieChart works as advertised in the documentation, by
giving the data values to the setData method one by one:

myPie = gdchart.Pie3D()
myPie.setData(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
myPie.setLabels(["One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five"])

But one can't build a list of data by other mean and then use it as
argument:

# assume both list have same length
mydatalist, mydatalabels = getDataFromSomeSource()
myPie = gdchart.Pie3D()
myPie.setData(mydatalist)
myPie.setLabels(mydatalabels)

This results in this exception:
GDChartError: List of labels must have same length as data.

called like this, myPie._data contains:
myPie._data
([906.98000000000002, 2.5600000000000001, 92.459999999999994],)

setData method is defined like this:

364     def setData(self, *data):
365         """
366             Set pie data to be graphed.
367             mypie.setData(1, 2, 3, 4)
368         """
369         self._datalen = len(data)
370         self._data = data
371         self._conformanceCheck()

If defined like this:
364     def setData(self, data):

It will work correctly, but the call to setData will _always_ need to be
done as an array. So, documentation will need to be:

myPie.setData([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])

Which would be more consistent with the way setLabels works anyway.

Should I send the patch/bug report upstream to Debian? 


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Versions of packages python-gdchart2 depends on:
ii  libc6           2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfreetype6    2.3.7-2ubuntu1           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgd2-noxpm    2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-3ubuntu1 GD Graphics Library version 2 (wit
ii  libgdchart-gd2- 0.11.5-6                 Generate graphs using the GD libra
ii  libjpeg62       6b-14                    The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0      1.2.27-1                 PNG library - runtime
ii  python          2.5.2-1ubuntu1           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support  0.8.4                    automated rebuilding support for P
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12ubuntu1 compression library - runtime

python-gdchart2 recommends no packages.

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