Re: [matplotlib-devel] Stacked plotting in matplotlib

[Fernando P. <fpe...@gm...>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> OK, here are mine: I oppose overloading plot with a "stacked" kwarg and
> functionality.  It is complicated enough as it is.  I don't see any
> problem with having "stackplot" and hist(..., stacked=True).  They are
> just not all that similar.  Nor are "plot" and "stackplot" so very
> similar.  But stacked and non-stacked histograms *are* very similar, so
> using the kwarg to turn on stacking there makes sense.

Quick q: how would things like log plots be handles for the stacked
case?  Log plots are really just axis scale choices on a normal plot,
but for historical reasons they happen to be implemented via a bunch
of different functions.  But for that reason, any interface changes
that make sense for plot pretty should also apply to the *log*
functions, no?

Cheers,

f