Re: [Matplotlib-users] Findng the right args and kwargs

[Sourav K. M. <sou...@gm...>]

On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 22:04 -0800, Michael Cohen wrote:

> > One of the most persistent problems I have with matplotlib is finding
> > out which kwargs and args are available for some commands.
> > For instance, I am looking at manipulating axis ticks and labels in
> > mplot3d, so I went to the mplot3d api page, and looked for useful
> > commands and found:
> >
> > set_xlabel(xlabel, fontdict=None, **kwargs)¶
> >       Set xlabel.
> >
> > set_xlim3d(*args, **kwargs)¶
> >       Set 3D x limits.
> >
> > However, there is no information that I can find about "args" and
> > "kwargs" that I can use to figure out how to make my changes.

Don't these unbound methods just take the same arguments as the bound
methods "xlabels" and "xlim", as given in

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.xlabel

and

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.xlim

?