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

[Mike K. <mc...@gm...>]

On 11/15/12 2:54 PM, Paul Ivanov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Mike Kaufman <mc...@gm...

>
>     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

Thanks Paul,

One is a doc fix, the other requires changing code (inside axis.py?). So 
best practice probably argues that 'both', if acceptable, should really 
only go into master.

That said, I think the 'both' change only requires a change to a pair of 
conditionals...

M