RE: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib priorities

[Perry G. <pe...@st...>]

John Hunter wrote:
> 
>     Humufr> There are something I did't see in the list (but perhaps
>     Humufr> it's possible to do now) and that I think will be useful
>     Humufr> for astronomer. it's to plot an image with axes in
>     Humufr> astronomical unit (RA and Dec)
> 
>     Humufr> like this function in pgplot:
> 
>     Humufr> 
> http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/subroutines.html#PGTBOX
> 
>     Humufr> thanks for this software who are very good,
> 
> The new ticker code was designed to support exactly this kind of
> application.  The documentation
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.ticker.html details this
> process.  That code defines a lot of preset tick locators and
> formatters but was primarily designed to be user extensible.
> 
> Since I'm not an astronomer, I'm probably not the best person to write
> this, but it would be fairly easy to subclass
> matplotlib.ticker.Locator and matplotlib.ticker.Formatter to provide
> exactly this functionality.
> 
We are astronomers and we do intend to write tools to allow this.
We haven't done this yet but it is fairly high on our list
of things to do. I didn't think that such a specialized thing
was needed on the generalized goals. You are welcome to
write one if you need it sooner of course.

Perry Greenfield