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From: <ef...@us...> - 2010-06-26 19:05:00
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Revision: 8470
http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/?rev=8470&view=rev
Author: efiring
Date: 2010-06-26 19:04:53 +0000 (Sat, 26 Jun 2010)
Log Message:
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docstrings: use standard spelling and capitalization of MATLAB
Modified Paths:
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trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/intro.rst
trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py
trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/artist.py
trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/axes.py
trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/blocking_input.py
trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/contour.py
trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py
trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/pylab.py
trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py
Modified: trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/intro.rst
===================================================================
--- trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/intro.rst 2010-06-26 08:14:01 UTC (rev 8469)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/doc/users/intro.rst 2010-06-26 19:04:53 UTC (rev 8470)
@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@
matplotlib is a library for making 2D plots of arrays in `Python
<http://www.python.org>`_. Although it has its origins in emulating
-the MATLAB graphics commands, it is
+the MATLAB |reg| [*]_ graphics commands, it is
independent of MATLAB, and can be used in a Pythonic, object oriented
way. Although matplotlib is written primarily in pure Python, it
makes heavy use of `NumPy <http://www.numpy.org>`_ and other extension
code to provide good performance even for large arrays.
+.. |reg| unicode:: 0xAE
+ :ltrim:
+
matplotlib is designed with the philosophy that you should be able to
create simple plots with just a few commands, or just one! If you
want to see a histogram of your data, you shouldn't need to
@@ -87,3 +90,6 @@
embed matplotlib in a Gtk+ EEG application that runs on Windows, Linux
and Macintosh OS X.
+.. [*] MATLAB is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.
+
+
Modified: trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py 2010-06-26 08:14:01 UTC (rev 8469)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py 2010-06-26 19:04:53 UTC (rev 8470)
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
"""
This is an object-orient plotting library.
-A procedural interface is provided by the companion pylab module,
+A procedural interface is provided by the companion pyplot module,
which may be imported directly, e.g::
+ from pyplot import *
+
+To include numpy functions, use::
+
from pylab import *
or using ipython::
@@ -11,9 +15,11 @@
ipython -pylab
For the most part, direct use of the object-oriented library is
-encouraged when programming rather than working interactively. The
-exceptions are the pylab commands :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.figure`,
+encouraged when programming; pyplot is primarily for working
+interactively. The
+exceptions are the pyplot commands :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.figure`,
:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.subplot`,
+:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.subplots`,
:func:`~matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg.show`, and
:func:`~pyplot.savefig`, which can greatly simplify scripting.
@@ -86,6 +92,10 @@
matplotlib is written by John D. Hunter (jdh2358 at gmail.com) and a
host of others.
+
+Occasionally the internal documentation (python docstrings) will refer
+to MATLAB®, a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.
+
"""
from __future__ import generators
@@ -897,7 +907,7 @@
# Now allow command line to override
-# Allow command line access to the backend with -d (matlab compatible
+# Allow command line access to the backend with -d (MATLAB compatible
# flag)
for s in sys.argv[1:]:
Modified: trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/artist.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/artist.py 2010-06-26 08:14:01 UTC (rev 8469)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/artist.py 2010-06-26 19:04:53 UTC (rev 8470)
@@ -1159,10 +1159,10 @@
>>> lines = plot(x, y1, x, y2)
>>> setp(lines, linewidth=2, color='r')
- :func:`setp` works with the matlab style string/value pairs or
+ :func:`setp` works with the MATLAB style string/value pairs or
with python kwargs. For example, the following are equivalent::
- >>> setp(lines, 'linewidth', 2, 'color', r') # matlab style
+ >>> setp(lines, 'linewidth', 2, 'color', r') # MATLAB style
>>> setp(lines, linewidth=2, color='r') # python style
"""
Modified: trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/axes.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/axes.py 2010-06-26 08:14:01 UTC (rev 8469)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/axes.py 2010-06-26 19:04:53 UTC (rev 8470)
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
def _process_plot_format(fmt):
"""
- Process a matlab(TM) style color/line style format string. Return a
+ Process a MATLAB style color/line style format string. Return a
(*linestyle*, *color*) tuple as a result of the processing. Default
values are ('-', 'b'). Example format strings include:
@@ -1963,7 +1963,7 @@
grid(self, b=None, which='major', **kwargs)
- Set the axes grids on or off; *b* is a boolean. (For Matlab
+ Set the axes grids on or off; *b* is a boolean. (For MATLAB
compatibility, *b* may also be a string, 'on' or 'off'.)
If *b* is *None* and ``len(kwargs)==0``, toggle the grid state. If
@@ -5187,7 +5187,7 @@
- *vert* = 1 (default) makes the boxes vertical.
- *vert* = 0 makes horizontal boxes. This seems goofy, but
- that's how Matlab did it.
+ that's how MATLAB did it.
*whis* (default 1.5) defines the length of the whiskers as
a function of the inner quartile range. They extend to the
@@ -6744,7 +6744,7 @@
*shading*: [ 'flat' | 'faceted' ]
If 'faceted', a black grid is drawn around each rectangle; if
'flat', edges are not drawn. Default is 'flat', contrary to
- Matlab.
+ MATLAB.
This kwarg is deprecated; please use 'edgecolors' instead:
* shading='flat' -- edgecolors='none'
@@ -6765,7 +6765,7 @@
.. _axes-pcolor-grid-orientation:
- The grid orientation follows the Matlab(TM) convention: an
+ The grid orientation follows the MATLAB convention: an
array *C* with shape (*nrows*, *ncolumns*) is plotted with
the column number as *X* and the row number as *Y*, increasing
up; hence it is plotted the way the array would be printed,
@@ -6800,7 +6800,7 @@
pcolor(C.T)
- Matlab :func:`pcolor` always discards the last row and column
+ MATLAB :func:`pcolor` always discards the last row and column
of *C*, but matplotlib displays the last row and column if *X* and
*Y* are not specified, or if *X* and *Y* have one more row and
column than *C*.
@@ -6942,7 +6942,7 @@
*shading*: [ 'flat' | 'faceted' | 'gouraud' ]
If 'faceted', a black grid is drawn around each rectangle; if
'flat', edges are not drawn. Default is 'flat', contrary to
- Matlab(TM).
+ MATLAB.
This kwarg is deprecated; please use 'edgecolors' instead:
* shading='flat' -- edgecolors='None'
@@ -8219,14 +8219,14 @@
raise ValueError('Argument to subplot must be a 3 digits long')
rows, cols, num = map(int, s)
self._subplotspec = GridSpec(rows, cols)[num-1]
- # num - 1 for converting from matlab to python indexing
+ # num - 1 for converting from MATLAB to python indexing
elif len(args)==3:
rows, cols, num = args
if isinstance(num, tuple) and len(num) == 2:
self._subplotspec = GridSpec(rows, cols)[num[0]-1:num[1]]
else:
self._subplotspec = GridSpec(rows, cols)[num-1]
- # num - 1 for converting from matlab to python indexing
+ # num - 1 for converting from MATLAB to python indexing
else:
raise ValueError( 'Illegal argument to subplot')
Modified: trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py 2010-06-26 08:14:01 UTC (rev 8469)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py 2010-06-26 19:04:53 UTC (rev 8470)
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@
def get_rgb(self):
"""
returns a tuple of three floats from 0-1. color can be a
- matlab format string, a html hex color string, or a rgb tuple
+ MATLAB format string, a html hex color string, or a rgb tuple
"""
return self._rgb
@@ -781,7 +781,7 @@
def set_foreground(self, fg, isRGB=False):
"""
- Set the foreground color. fg can be a matlab format string, a
+ Set the foreground color. fg can be a MATLAB format string, a
html hex color string, an rgb unit tuple, or a float between 0
and 1. In the latter case, grayscale is used.
@@ -2072,7 +2072,7 @@
class FigureManagerBase:
"""
- Helper class for matlab mode, wraps everything up into a neat bundle
+ Helper class for pyplot mode, wraps everything up into a neat bundle
Public attibutes:
Modified: trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/blocking_input.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/blocking_input.py 2010-06-26 08:14:01 UTC (rev 8469)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/blocking_input.py 2010-06-26 19:04:53 UTC (rev 8470)
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@
BlockingInput.pop(self,-1)
# This will exit even if not in infinite mode. This is
- # consistent with matlab and sometimes quite useful, but will
+ # consistent with MATLAB and sometimes quite useful, but will
# require the user to test how many points were actually
# returned before using data.
self.fig.canvas.stop_event_loop()
Modified: trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/contour.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/contour.py 2010-06-26 08:14:01 UTC (rev 8469)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/contour.py 2010-06-26 19:04:53 UTC (rev 8470)
@@ -1234,8 +1234,8 @@
filled contours, respectively. Except as noted, function
signatures and return values are the same for both versions.
- :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.contourf` differs from the Matlab
- (TM) version in that it does not draw the polygon edges.
+ :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.contourf` differs from the MATLAB
+ version in that it does not draw the polygon edges.
To draw edges, add line contours with
calls to :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.contour`.
Modified: trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py 2010-06-26 08:14:01 UTC (rev 8469)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py 2010-06-26 19:04:53 UTC (rev 8470)
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
"""
-Numerical python functions written for compatability with matlab(TM)
+Numerical python functions written for compatability with MATLAB
commands with the same names.
-Matlab(TM) compatible functions
+MATLAB compatible functions
-------------------------------
:func:`cohere`
@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@
Miscellaneous functions
-------------------------
-Functions that don't exist in matlab(TM), but are useful anyway:
+Functions that don't exist in MATLAB, but are useful anyway:
:meth:`cohere_pairs`
- Coherence over all pairs. This is not a matlab function, but we
+ Coherence over all pairs. This is not a MATLAB function, but we
compute coherence a lot in my lab, and we compute it for a lot of
pairs. This function is optimized to do this efficiently by
caching the direct FFTs.
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@
raise ValueError("sides must be one of: 'default', 'onesided', or "
"'twosided'")
- # Matlab divides by the sampling frequency so that density function
+ # MATLAB divides by the sampling frequency so that density function
# has units of dB/Hz and can be integrated by the plotted frequency
# values. Perform the same scaling here.
if scale_by_freq:
@@ -277,18 +277,18 @@
Pxy[:,i] = np.conjugate(fx[:numFreqs]) * fy[:numFreqs]
# Scale the spectrum by the norm of the window to compensate for
- # windowing loss; see Bendat & Piersol Sec 11.5.2.
+ # windowing loss; see Bendat & Piersol Sec 11.5.2.
Pxy *= 1 / (np.abs(windowVals)**2).sum()
# Also include scaling factors for one-sided densities and dividing by the
# sampling frequency, if desired. Scale everything, except the DC component
- # and the NFFT/2 component:
+ # and the NFFT/2 component:
Pxy[1:-1] *= scaling_factor
- #But do scale those components by Fs, if required
+ #But do scale those components by Fs, if required
if scale_by_freq:
- Pxy[[0,-1]] /= Fs
-
+ Pxy[[0,-1]] /= Fs
+
t = 1./Fs * (ind + NFFT / 2.)
freqs = float(Fs) / pad_to * np.arange(numFreqs)
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@
*detrend*: callable
The function applied to each segment before fft-ing,
designed to remove the mean or linear trend. Unlike in
- matlab, where the *detrend* parameter is a vector, in
+ MATLAB, where the *detrend* parameter is a vector, in
matplotlib is it a function. The :mod:`~matplotlib.pylab`
module defines :func:`~matplotlib.pylab.detrend_none`,
:func:`~matplotlib.pylab.detrend_mean`, and
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@
Specifies whether the resulting density values should be scaled
by the scaling frequency, which gives density in units of Hz^-1.
This allows for integration over the returned frequency values.
- The default is True for MatLab compatibility.
+ The default is True for MATLAB compatibility.
"""))
@docstring.dedent_interpd
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@
- *fracVar* : the fraction of the variance accounted for by each
component returned
- A similar function of the same name was in the Matlab (TM)
+ A similar function of the same name was in the MATLAB
R13 Neural Network Toolbox but is not found in later versions;
its successor seems to be called "processpcs".
"""
@@ -1732,7 +1732,7 @@
def isvector(X):
"""
- Like the Matlab (TM) function with the same name, returns *True*
+ Like the MATLAB function with the same name, returns *True*
if the supplied numpy array or matrix *X* looks like a vector,
meaning it has a one non-singleton axis (i.e., it can have
multiple axes, but all must have length 1, except for one of
@@ -2719,7 +2719,7 @@
# remove masked points.
if hasattr(z,'mask'):
# make sure mask is not a scalar boolean array.
- if a.mask.ndim:
+ if a.mask.ndim:
x = x.compress(z.mask == False)
y = y.compress(z.mask == False)
z = z.compressed()
Modified: trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/pylab.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/pylab.py 2010-06-26 08:14:01 UTC (rev 8469)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/pylab.py 2010-06-26 19:04:53 UTC (rev 8470)
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@
plotting library.
The following plotting commands are provided; the majority have
-Matlab(TM) analogs and similar argument.
+MATLAB |reg| [*]_ analogs and similar arguments.
+.. |reg| unicode:: 0xAE
+
_Plotting commands
acorr - plot the autocorrelation function
annotate - annotate something in the figure
@@ -197,6 +199,9 @@
__end
+.. [*] MATLAB is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc.
+
+
"""
import sys, warnings
Modified: trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py 2010-06-26 08:14:01 UTC (rev 8469)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py 2010-06-26 19:04:53 UTC (rev 8470)
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+"""
+Provides a MATLAB-like plotting framework.
+
+:mod:`~matplotlib.pylab` combines pyplot with numpy into a single namespace.
+This is convenient for interactive work, but for programming it
+is recommended that the namespaces be kept separate, e.g.::
+
+ import numpy as np
+ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+
+ x = np.arange(0, 5, 0.1);
+ y = np.sin(x)
+ plt.plot(x, y)
+
+"""
+
import sys
import matplotlib
@@ -197,7 +213,7 @@
If *num* is an integer, and ``figure(num)`` already exists, make it
active and return a reference to it. If ``figure(num)`` does not exist
- it will be created. Numbering starts at 1, matlab style::
+ it will be created. Numbering starts at 1, MATLAB style::
figure(1)
@@ -739,7 +755,7 @@
subplot_kw['sharey'] = ax0
axarr[0] = ax0
- # Note off-by-one counting because add_subplot uses the matlab 1-based
+ # Note off-by-one counting because add_subplot uses the MATLAB 1-based
# convention.
for i in range(1, nplots):
axarr[i] = fig.add_subplot(nrows, ncols, i+1, **subplot_kw)
@@ -947,7 +963,7 @@
changes *x* and *y* axis limits such that all data is shown. If
all data is already shown, it will move it to the center of the
figure without modifying (*xmax* - *xmin*) or (*ymax* -
- *ymin*). Note this is slightly different than in matlab.
+ *ymin*). Note this is slightly different than in MATLAB.
>>> axis('image')
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