Re: [Matplotlib-users] plot command: more flexible argument handling

[Stefan v. d. W. <st...@su...>]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:19:41PM -1000, Eric Firing wrote:
> To summarize, the options seem to be:
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> 1) Leave plot argument parsing alone.
> 2) Accept an Nx2 array in place of a pair of arguments containing x and=
 y.
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> 3) Implement the Matlab model.
> 4) Implement the Matlab model, but taking rows instead of columns in an=
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> X or Y array that is 2-D.
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> I am open to arguments, but my preference is the Matlab model.  I don't=
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> think that the difference in native array storage order matters much.=20
> It is more important to have the API at the plot method and function=20
> level match the way people think.

I wasn't aware of the matlab model when I made the suggestion --
havn't used it for such a long time!  Option (3) looks good for
consistency: for one argument, always plot agains row index, for two
arguments, plot columns of x to columns of y, using broadcasting if
necessary (i.e. if either x or y is a vector).

Regards
St=E9fan