Re: [matplotlib-devel] Empty scatter plot

[Ben G. <bga...@gm...>]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:40:01 -0600, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> So, the question is, is this a bug or a feature?  I personally believe that
> empty data is a perfectly valid scenario and given that other matplotlib
> functions handle it gracefully, we should make the collections object more
> friendly to empty data.
> 
I agree that this is certainly a bug. For instance, I have a short
script which reads a stream of data from stdin and plots in
realtime. Unfortunately this bug made it prohibitively difficult to add
support for scatter plots. I'd definitely appreciate it if this were
fixed.

Cheers,

- Ben