Re: [Matplotlib-users] Using pylab interface with Agg backend?

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On 7/12/06, John Hunter <jdh...@ac...> wrote:
> In a production app like a web application server generating graphics,
> often times you don't want any magic going on behind the hood, and
> pylab's stateful management of figures, the current figure, and the
> current axes grates on some people who like to have full control over
> object creation and destruction.
>
> So the webapp demo shows how to use the API to manage and use
> figures.  It is mainly a style choice.

Thanks, I'm starting to understand.  So since I am making a web app, I
should be refering to the API reference instead of the screenshots
code:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

If correct here, I guess I locate the API in the user guide?  Is there
anything else I should be using as a reference?

-Greg