Re: [Matplotlib-users] passing 1D or 2D arrays to contour, pcolor, image, plot

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

Mark Bakker wrote:

> 
> On the same token, it would be really nice if contour, pcolor and image
> take as an x and y argument not only a matrix but just a 1D row. This
> should be really easy and would be very useful.

contour already does this, and I agree that pcolor and pcolormesh 
should.  pcolor* is a little more complicated than contour because the X 
and Y dimensions are ideally larger by 1 than the corresponding Z 
dimensions, but don't have to be.

image does not take x,y arguments at all, by design.

> 
> In fact, if more people want it I can submit a patch for the latter one,
OK.  I suggest a function that can be used for both pcolor and 
pcolormesh.  (Some day the two should be consolidated, but there is a 
pcolormesh bug with alpha != 1, so we can't do it yet.)

Eric