[matplotlib-devel] purpose of 'stepfilled' in hist()?

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

I am tracing down a bug in hist() and I am trying to figure out what is it
about the 'stepfilled' mode that is different from the regular 'bar' mode.
Currently, the hist() code has a separate if branch for dealing with 'step'
and 'stepfilled', and that branch has a bunch of bugs.  The best that I can
figure is that it prevents lines from being drawn in between the bins.  If
that is the only difference, maybe we could somehow use the bar functions?

At the very least, I think this needs to be documented better to make it
clear why this oddball approach is happening.

Thanks,
Ben Root