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[Matplotlib-users] Why the name Axes?

[David C. <dl...@ha...>]

How was the name Axes chosen for the Axes component?  :)

It did confuse me for at least two days while I was first learning 
mpl.  It's in my thoughts again as I'm writing some wrapper classes for 
it; what were the alternatives considered, even after the fact? :)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Why the name Axes?

[Christopher B. <Chr...@no...>]

David Carmean wrote:
> How was the name Axes chosen for the Axes component?  :)

Much of the MPL API was modeled after the Matlab API, so you may have to 
ask Mathworks.

However: an "axis" is a single thing -- "the x axis". "axes" is the 
plural of axis, so when you have a thing with both an x and y axis, is 
is an "axes".

-Chris



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