Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-devel] What would you like to see in a book about Matplotlib?

[Christopher B. <Chr...@no...>]

Sandro Tosi wrote:
> So you suggest to start from matplotlib.pyplot and not from pylab?

actually, I think matpoltlib.pyplot still has all of pylab in it, just 
not all of numpy also. So yes, do that, but what I meant was to focus on 
using the OO interface, rather than the state machine interface:

rather than 'gca', 'gcf', etc, store references to the figures and axis, 
etc:

this kind of thing:

fig = plt.Figure()

ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.plot([1,2,3])

ax.set_title('hi mom')

ax.grid(True)

ax.set_xlabel('time')
ax.set_ylabel('volts')

While we are at it, discourage the use of "import *" !

-Chris







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