[matplotlib-devel] log in hist() and toggling

[Olle E. <ol...@fy...>]

Hi,

I very much miss the 'l' shortcut for toggling log/lin y-scale in the 
trunk! I use it a lot.

I suggest restoring it with something like

if self.get_yscale() is ("log" or "linear"):
    self.toggle_log_lineary()
else: pass

I think most of time most people use log or linear scales.

The new hist() function looks really good, I especially welcome the "step" 
mode. A couple of comments:

The latest svn incarnation doesn't allow for log scale in step-mode 
(unless you set it manually).

Also, I think the step-mode should have fill=False as default, otherwise 
it does not look that much different from bar-mode. The nice thing about 
step histograms is that you can put several of them in the same plot while 
keeping it intelligible!


Cheers,
/Olle