FIX: pandas indexing error

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit 2f73778aba90 · 2015-12-28T19:01:36.000-05:00
pd.Series prefer indexing via searching the index to positional indexing. This method will get the first element of any iterable. It will advance a generater, but they did not work previously anyway. Closes #5550
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/dates.py b/lib/matplotlib/dates.py
@@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ def default_units(x, axis):
             x = x.ravel()
 
         try:
-            x = x[0]
+            x = next(iter(x))
         except (TypeError, IndexError):
             pass
 
