Re: [matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

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

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:

>
> > Would i be right in assuming that it would take roughly the same amount
> of effort as writing a new backend? ie for each motplotlib action it would
> need a function to store that action and a function to call that action
> again.
>
> It is much more than that; it would take a backend to write out the new
> format, and an interpreter to turn that format back into mpl objects or
> API calls.



I don't think this approach would be viable, because the backend doesn't
know the progeny of the object (eg a tick line).  I think to have a proper
serialized format, you would want to do it at the artist layer.

JDH