Re: [matplotlib-devel] An easier way to create figure and group of axes; useful?

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

Fernando Perez wrote:
> in trying to teach a more structured use of mpl,

good for you!

I always felt that to efficiently use the OO interface, there needed to 
be some more utility functions like this:

> In [37]: figaxes()
> Out[37]:
> (<matplotlib.figure.Figure object at 0xa24b4cc>,
>  [<matplotlib.axes.AxesSubplot object at 0x9e74a4c>])
> 
> In [38]: figaxes((2,1))
> Out[38]:
> (<matplotlib.figure.Figure object at 0xa359fcc>,
>  [<matplotlib.axes.AxesSubplot object at 0xa47c66c>,
>   <matplotlib.axes.AxesSubplot object at 0xa4a5c8c>])
> 
> In [39]: figaxes((2,2),dict(polar=True))
> Out[39]:
> (<matplotlib.figure.Figure object at 0xa6e340c>,
>  [<matplotlib.axes.PolarAxesSubplot object at 0xa6fd5ac>,
>   <matplotlib.axes.PolarAxesSubplot object at 0xa8b73cc>,
>   <matplotlib.axes.PolarAxesSubplot object at 0xa8dd54c>,
>   <matplotlib.axes.PolarAxesSubplot object at 0xa9686cc>])

I like it!

-Chris


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