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

[Fernando P. <fpe...@gm...>]

Howdy

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I thought there is no master and slave for an axis-sharing?
> If that's the case, maybe "sharex=True" should be suffice?

I defer to your wisdom here: I had no clue about this, so I went for
the clumsier API.  If you are right, it would also make the
implementation much simpler, as I had to play some not-totally-obvious
gymnastics to alter axis creation order based on this parameter.

One more, related question: is it possible/reasonable to share *both*
x and y axes?

It would be really nice if you were correct.  The api could be nicer
and the implementation simpler.

> Also, how about "subplots" returns a some kind of object so that we
> may define some methods on it. We can define  "__iter__" method so
> that above syntax also works. As an example,
>
> mysubplots = subplots(4,1, sharex=True)
> mysubplots.label_outer()
> ax1, ax2, ax3, ax4 = mysubplots

Mmh, more than I have  time for right now, I'm afraid (I'm really
pushing it with these little side-trips already).  But if you do have
a minute to  do it, run with it.

I can only commit to finish the basic implementation with the changes
discussed above, plus any fixes to share* based on clarifying these
points.  A fancier object API would be great to have, so by all means
go ahead if you have the bandwidth!

Cheers,

f