Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Matplotlib-users] ANN: mpltools 0.1 release

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Jul 13, 2012, at 7:57 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

> There was talk of this living in mlab or cbook. Is there a preference?
> 
> 
> Neither.  cbook is really meant more for the devs.  Half of it is converter functions that are probably completely unneeded now, while the other half is the callback registry. 

I disagree that cbook is meant for devs. I initially used cbook as a place to put neat recipes from the python cookbook. It has grown a bit from there.  The stuff that is in there like "is_string_like" is generically useful. 

The converters are used by the rec2* funcs, eg the rec2excel function in the exceltools toolkit. I use these extensively. 


> Luckily, the module is called "cbook.py", so one could pretend that it isn't "cookbook" but rather "callback book"...
> 
> Meanwhile, mlab's own documentation says: "Numerical python functions written for compatability with MATLAB
> commands with the same names."  So, unless someone can find out if MATLAB has some sort of equivalent functionality hidden away somewhere, it doesn't belong there either.
> 

Or better, we change the docstring. I think of mlab as a place to put numerical or semi-numerical stuff in support of plotting. 


> Not sure where to put it.


mlab is probably the best place.