Re: [matplotlib-devel] mlab and pylab

[Norbert N. <Nor...@gm...>]

Hi Eric,

thanks for the warning. I had looked into the issue but never got around
to start working on it.

While you are at it, I would suggest that you split the graphics stuff
out of pylab into a separate
module (pyplot?) to be used for "interactive plotting".

I believe I'm not the only user who likes the stateful plotting
functionality (i.e. based on gca(), gcf() etc.) but does not want to
import all the matlab-compatibility numerics-functions along. Typically,
I prefer the nice and clean numpy stuff to do numerics.

I would suggest to create an additional module (e.g. pyplot?) that only
contains the stateful plotting routines and a module pylab that simply
imports everything from pyplot and mlab.

Greetings,
Norbert




Eric Firing wrote:
> I have been gradually numpifying mlab.py; I hope this is not a 
> duplication of effort with someone else. I have not finished yet (and 
> have made no commits), and it may still take a while--there are a lot of 
> things to change, and I am trying to do some cleaning up and 
> rationalization, not just mechanical numpification. I will probably 
> commit a mlab1.py version so as to facilitate some extra testing before 
> making the switch.
>
> I am trying to simplify and shrink the mlab namespace, with the idea 
> that if a function exists in modern numpy it should simply be imported 
> >from there.
>
> Similarly, after dealing with mlab, I would like to simplify pylab. 
> Right now, we have a horrible tangle of namespaces in pylab.  Cleaning 
> this up will potentially break user code; if a numpy function formerly 
> could be referenced with three different names and we knock that down to 
> one, code using the other two will not work.  My guess is that in 
> practice the amount of breakage will be *very* small and easy for users 
> to deal with.
>
> Eric
>
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