Re: [Matplotlib-users] saving an axes to draw in a different figure

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John Hunter wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...> wrote:
>   
>> I don't think your approach will work in general.
>> When you move an axes from one figure to the other, you have to update
>> the transform attributes of all the artists, which, I think, could be
>> tricky to do for general cases.
>>     
>
> I agree that this would be difficult with the existing code base, but
> it would be something that is nice to support.  Perhaps we can think
> about adding support for a fig.move_axes_to(otherfig) method that
> reconnects all the wiring.  We would of course have to be very careful
> about all the child artists, but this would be a good thing to get
> right.
>   


Okay.  I was hoping that maybe you would say the right way to do this 
was using inset_axes or something 
(http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/axes_grid/inset_locator_demo.html), 
but I think I understand from the comments why, for example, the ticks 
were all off in my example.

I guess we'll put this functionality in Sage on hold pending the 
functionality you mention above...

Thanks,

Jason