Dependence on tikzplotlib makes netcal.presentation unusable

[vitawasalreadytaken]

Hi, thank you for this useful library.

I ran into problems just attempting to import netcal.presentation. This leads to the following error: ImportError: cannot import name 'common_texification' from 'matplotlib.backends.backend_pgf' (redacted/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pgf.py) (I am pasting the full trace below).

Versions:

Python 3.12.1

matplotlib==3.10.3
netcal==1.3.5
tikzplotlib==0.9.8

According to this discussion this is due to tikzplot being effectively unmaintained, and not fixing this well-known issue: nschloe/tikzplotlib#559

Indeed, when I inject matplot2tikz into imported modules before importing anything from netcal everything works perfectly 🎉

import sys
import matplot2tikz
sys.modules["tikzplotlib"] = matplot2tikz

Maybe you would consider switching to matplot2tikz instead of tikzplotlib? 🙏

Full ImportError stack trace

File redacted/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/netcal/presentation/__init__.py:25
      1 # Copyright (C) 2019-2023 Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences, Bottrop, Germany
      2 # AND e:fs TechHub GmbH, Gaimersheim, Germany
      3 #
      4 # This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Apache License 2.0
      5 # If a copy of the APL2 was not distributed with this
      6 # file, You can obtain one at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt.
      8 """
      9 .. include:: /../../netcal/presentation/README.md
     10    :parser: myst_parser.sphinx_
   (...)     21    ReliabilityQCE
     22 """
---> 25 from .ReliabilityDiagram import ReliabilityDiagram
     26 from .ReliabilityRegression import ReliabilityRegression
     27 from .ReliabilityQCE import ReliabilityQCE

File redacted/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/netcal/presentation/ReliabilityDiagram.py:14
     11 from scipy.interpolate import interp1d, griddata
     13 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
---> 14 import tikzplotlib
     16 from netcal.metrics.Miscalibration import _Miscalibration
     19 class ReliabilityDiagram(object):

File redacted/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/tikzplotlib/__init__.py:5
      3 from .__about__ import __version__
      4 from ._cleanfigure import clean_figure
----> 5 from ._save import Flavors, get_tikz_code, save
      7 __all__ = [
      8     "__version__",
      9     "get_tikz_code",
   (...)     12     "Flavors",
     13 ]

File redacted/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/tikzplotlib/_save.py:11
      8 import matplotlib as mpl
      9 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
---> 11 from . import _axes
     12 from . import _image as img
     13 from . import _legend, _line2d, _patch, _path

File redacted/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/tikzplotlib/_axes.py:3
      1 import matplotlib as mpl
      2 import numpy as np
----> 3 from matplotlib.backends.backend_pgf import (
      4     common_texification as mpl_common_texification,
      5 )
      7 from . import _color
     10 def _common_texification(string):
     11     # Work around <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/15493>

ImportError: cannot import name 'common_texification' from 'matplotlib.backends.backend_pgf' (redacted/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_pgf.py)

[fabiankueppers]

Hi @vitawasalreadytaken
thank you very much for pointing out this issue. This is definetly one of the next todos.