On 2015/06/07 12:05 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
>> Matplotlib's pyplot retains quite a few vestiges from its original
>> Matlab-workalike heritage; we would like to gradually eliminate those
>> that no longer make sense. One such candidate is the "hold" kwarg that
>> every pyplot function has, with a "True" default. I don't think it
>> serves any useful purpose now, and getting rid of it would allow
>> considerable simplification to the code and, to a lesser extent, the
>> documentation. The default behavior would not change, only the ability
>> to change that behavior via either the rcParams['axes.hold'] parameter
>> or the "hold" kwarg in a pyplot function call.
>>
>> If you routinely use 'hold=False' and believe that removing it would be
>> a mistake, please let us know.
>
> I do actually use it with some regularity interactively, though I'm
> not particularly attached to it. Is there some equivalent though, like
> plt.whatever(..., hold=False)
> can become
> plt.clear(); plt.whatever(...)
It's exactly equivalent to:
plt.cla(); plt.whatever(...)
> ? The semantics would be that the current figure remains the current
> figure, but is reset so that the next operation starts from scratch. I
> notice that plt.clear() does not exist, but maybe it has another
> spelling :-).
There are two types of "clear":
plt.clf() # clear the current Figure
plt.cla() # clear the current Axes
Eric
>
> (Basically the use case here is getting something like the
> edit-and-rerun-a-cell workflow, but when using a classic interactive
> REPL rather than the ipython notebook -- so I have a specific plot
> window up on my screen at a size and place where I can see it, and
> maybe some other plots in other windows in the background somewhere,
> and I want to quickly display different things into that window.)
>
> -n
>
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