Re: [matplotlib-devel] Proposal for Broken Axes

[Jae-Joon L. <lee...@gm...>]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Jeff Klukas <kl...@wi...> wrote:
> # Create BrokenAxes with bottom from 0 to 5 and top from 30 to 35
> ax = plt.broken_axes(ybounds=[0.,5.,30.,35.])
> # Plot a line onto BOTH subaxes
> ax.plot(range(35),range(35))
>
> The call to plot would get routed through __getattribute__, which
> would then call plot for each of the subaxes.  This would be much more
> intuitive than my existing breaky solution, where you have to loop
> over all subaxes and plot on each individually.
>

How do you want to handle

l1, = ax.plot(range(35), range(35))
l1.set_color("r")

then?

I think keeping two (or more) separate artists for each axes while an
user think there is only one artist (because only one axes is exposed
to the user) is not a good idea.

Regards,

-JJ