Re: [matplotlib-devel] tick_params direction 'inout'

[Paul I. <piv...@gm...>]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Mike Kaufman <mc...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I don't have time to make a patch at the moment, but I thought I'd point
> it out for anyone to give it a go...
>
> tick_params(axis='both', **kwargs)
>      Change the appearance of ticks and tick labels.
>
>      Keyword arguments:
>
> ...
>
>      *direction* : ['in' | 'out']
>          Puts ticks inside or outside the axes.
>
> I just found that *direction* accepts 'inout' as well, which
> does indeed place the tick on both sides of the spine. So the
> documentation should be updated to reflect this.


Thanks for the report, Mike, here's a PR for the patch:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1503


> If it were me, I'd allow 'both' to work as well.
>

I'm amenable to that, just not sure if that counts as a new feature and
should go into master, or a bugfix and go into v1.2.x.

I can add this functionality to #1503 if that makes sense to go to v1.2.x

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