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

[Sandro T. <mo...@de...>]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 01:48, Christopher Barker <Chr...@no...> wrote:
> 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.

yes, pylab glues pyplot and numpy together

> 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')

Ahhh ok, now I got it: I always use the style above, so I didn't know
the difference :) A reference to the doc is:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/usage_faq.html

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

Absolutely!

Your suggestions were really precious: please don't stop the stream,
it anything comes up :)

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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