Polars strings (incorrectly?) interpreted as markdown

[jnolis-medium]

Hi!

When I have strings in names of my categorical variables plotnine seems to be interpreting them as markdown automatically. I would not have expected this to be the default (I don't think it is in ggplot). Is this expected behavior? How would I turn this off?

Thank you!

(
    pl.DataFrame({"money_group": ["$0 - $10", "$10 + "], "count_in_group":[100,150]})
    >>
    ggplot(aes(x = "money_group", y = "count_in_group")) + geom_col() + theme_gray(20)
)

[has2k1]

What is happening is, text enclosed in $ signs triggers mathtext mode. The solution is to escape the dollar signs.

(
    pl.DataFrame({"money_group": [r"\$0 - \$10", r"\$10 + "], "count_in_group":[100,150]})
    >> ggplot(aes(x = "money_group", y = "count_in_group")) + geom_col() + theme_gray(20)
)

[jnolis-medium]

I suppose my question is then "should it use math mode?" My belief would be "it shouldn't, that's confusing to users and inconsistent with ggplot" but I'm not sure if people would agree. Thanks!

[has2k1]

The math mode only applies only to the text between the dollar signs. The same way it works in the github comments box $\alpha, \beta, \gamma$ \delta \epsilon is rendered as $\alpha, \beta, \gamma$ \delta \epsilon.

For plotnine, it is easier to go a long with it than to adopt a different convention.