Re: [Matplotlib-users] Grid line over shadows actual plotted line

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>"Eric" == Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> writes:
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>     Eric> The rc file is already pretty big--we might instead consider
>     Eric> making axisbelow(True) the hardwired default.  It seems
> 
> I already committed this change, but your comments on bloating rc
> files are well taken.
> 
>     Eric> logical to me.  It would be good to hear from others--are
>     Eric> there people who like the present default and/or prefer
>     Eric> adding this option to the rc collection?
> 
>     Eric> Looking at the code a little more, I wonder whether the best
>     Eric> way to handle this might not be by taking advantage of
>     Eric> zorder more consistently.  I think we could spread out the
>     Eric> default zorders, assign a suitable zorder to the axis
> 
> They don't need to be spread out per say, since these are floats we
> can subdivide them ad nauseaum.  Helper functions would make this more
> intuitive, like
> 
>   myobj.set_zorder(zhelper.between(gridline, myline))

Agreed.

Unless someone else would like to do it, I think I can work on this 
fairly soon, before or after I finish the work I am doing now on a new 
colorbar.

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>     Eric> I think this could make the code and interface simpler, more
>     Eric> self-consistent, and more flexible.  (My remarks are based
>     Eric> on only a quick look, so I may be missing something
>     Eric> important.)
> 
> But people will still want to set defaults...

Granted, and this flexibility is good.

Eric