Re: [matplotlib-devel] standard abbreviation for pyplot or pylab?

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
>
>  referring to:
>  http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cc7009a550804100055g6388b20ej520e85d8e679a55%40mail.gmail.com%3e
>
>  There was a slightly jumbled set of threads on Numpy-discussion that
>  included a discussion of standardizing imports, like this:
>
>  import numpy as np
>  import scipy as sp
>
>  and then this was added, as something else that had been agreed at the
>  same sprint:
>
>  import pylab as plt
>
>  I think this is a mistake, and it should have been
>
>  import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

This is what we agreed to (import matplotlib.pyplot as plt) during the
numpy sprint (I was on google chat remotely but participated in the
discussion).  I agree that pylab as plt would just add to the
confusion.  We agreed on promoting (and I currently use)

import numpy as np
import scipy as sp
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

JDH