Re: [Matplotlib-users] save or pickle figure object

[Friedrich H. <fri...@gm...>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:55:40PM -0700, Ted Drain wrote:
> I agree completely - I was just pointing that it is possible.  I think what
> people might not be aware of is that it's really an all or nothing
> proposition.  You either jump in completely and pay the large cost to handle
> this in a maintainable, scalable way or don't do it at all.  All of the
> "quick and easy" solutions have too many problems and aren't really
> maintainable.

Here is my (easy and maintainable) way to handle the versions for my graphics:

* I write the data creation in a python script
* I write the creation of the mpl graphics in a script (most the same)
* I manage these python file with a version-system (eg mercurial)

So I have different versions for my mpl graphics and I can modify the
graphic any time (with a new python run). If the data creation takes too
long, I could save the data in an extra file (eg pickle file) and
versioning the pickled file.

So I dont need an extra way to reedit a mpl graphic.


By,

  Friedrich