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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Remove numpy 1.6 specific work-arounds ","articleBody":"In #7396 / #7483 we bumped the minimum numpy version to 1.7.1.  We have a number of workarounds in the code base which should be removed\r\n\r\nFrom master:\r\n\r\n```\r\n09:41 $ ack -i 'numpy.*1\\.6' --python\r\nlib/matplotlib/cbook.py\r\n2585:# Numpy \u003e 1.6.x deprecates putmask in favor of the new copyto.\r\n\r\nlib/matplotlib/tri/triinterpolate.py\r\n1270:        # - it is new in numpy 1.6\r\n\r\nlib/matplotlib/category.py\r\n17:#  pure hack for numpy 1.6 support\r\n83:    \"\"\"Helper function for numpy 1.6, can be replaced with\r\n\r\nlib/matplotlib/tests/test_category.py\r\n160:        # Image test would fail on numpy 1.6\r\n\r\nlib/matplotlib/colors.py\r\n179:    # Python 2.7 / numpy 1.6 apparently require this to return builtin floats,\r\n\r\n```\r\n\r\nI would prefer is we not backport these for 2.0 (just being excessively conservative).\r\n\r\nattn @story645 ","author":{"url":"https://github.com/tacaswell","@type":"Person","name":"tacaswell"},"datePublished":"2016-11-18T14:46:07.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/7484/matplotlib/issues/7484"}