Re: [Matplotlib-users] Partial coloring of text in matplotlib

[Gökhan S. <gok...@gm...>]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Gökhan Sever <gok...@gm...>wrote:
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>> I was basing my whitespace split idea on single string assumption --eg.
>> no list passing.
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>> I do not have a strong preference on the final argument passing, as long
>> as it works instead of manually placing the texts on figure or axis :)
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>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Ryan May <rm...@gm...> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Gökhan Sever <gok...@gm...>
>>> wrote:
>>> > This works as well, as long as it functions :)
>>> >
>>> > My idea requires little less typing. But forgot previously, text string
>>> > should be whitespace split.
>>>
>>> Right, but we shouldn't guess. If we automatically split on
>>> whitespace, this becomes harder:
>>>
>>> plt.ylabel(["The sun is", "yellow"], ['k', 'y'])
>>>
>>> Ryan
>>>
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> I think the python mantra of "explicit over implicit" should be followed
> here.  I don't think we currently allow list of strings, so there is no
> risk of breaking existing scripts, I think.  We probably should confirm
> that just in case.
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>
Fair enough.


> Also, how deep should this rabbit hole go?  I could imagine one could want
> this for title() and figtitle().  Maybe it would be best to implement this
> at the Text() constructor level?
>

ylabel text coloring works for me for the time being. However, a general
implementation would possibly fulfill other incoming requests.


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> Ben Root
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Gökhan