Re: [Matplotlib-users] vertical padding in legend

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...> wrote:

> The problem is already well explained by Eric. And my solution is to
> interpret the legend.pad as a fraction of the textsize (pad=0.3 seems
> to work fine in my eyes). Note that this breaks the backward
> compatibility. I personally think the original behavior may have
> produced unsatisfactory results in most of the cases and keeping it as
> a default may not be a good idea. While I hope others come out with an
> elegant solution, I prefer to break the API in this case.

How about using a new kwarg and raising an exception if the old one is
passed in, with the exception pointing to the new arg?  I am a little
uncomfortable silently changing the meaning of the old arg.

JDH