Re: [matplotlib-devel] should set_xlim turn off x autoscaling?

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

I agree, while most of the time I call set_xlim() after all plotting is
finished, there are some cases where I call it before subsequent plot calls,
and this is a little nutty.  I wonder how this  change in behavior would
impact basemap which always seemed to have to code around this issue?

Ben Root

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Paul Barrett <peb...@gm...> wrote:

> Seems like a reasonable request to me. When I use xlim to specify the
> axes in a plot session, I tend to use it multiple times.  Therefore
> this default behaviour would seem reasonable.
>
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> > The present behavior of set_xlim and set_ylim can be surprising because
> > making the values stick for subsequent plotting in the same axes
> > requires manually calling set_autoscalex_on(False) etc.  It would seem
> > more logical if set_xlim itself included the call to turn autoscalex
> > off--isn't that what a user would almost always want and expect?
> >
> > Rectifying this would constitute a significant change affecting some
> > existing user code.
> >
> > What are people's thoughts on this?  Should the change made?  If so, do
> > it abruptly, right now, as part of version 1.0?  Or phase it in with a
> > temporary kwarg and/or rcparam?  It would be nice to avoid all that
> > complexity, but may be we can't, except by leaving everything as it is
> now.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
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