Re: [matplotlib-devel] Refactoring the axes module

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

> Perhaps it would be a good idea to exercise the mpl toolkits with this
> since it is more likely for them to do more esoteric things with axes.
> Don't forget Base map and possibly cartopy and pandas.
>

Thanks Ben.  I already did some playing with mplot3d, but I haven't tried
axes_grid{,1} or basemap yet.


> Cheers!
> Ben Root
> On Jun 28, 2013 5:20 PM, "Nelle Varoquaux" <nel...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello pythonistas,
>>
>> We've just finished refactoring the axes module at the scipy sprint, and
>> before merging we would like to inform developers of the changes. The axes
>> module contained more than 9k loc, and a few classes. It used to be a
>> file.
>>
>> Now, it became a folder called "axes". This module contains several
>> private submodules:
>> - _base.py: this private module contains a new class _AxesBase, that
>> inherits from Artist. This new class contains all the methods except
>> the plotting and labelling methods. It is now 3k loc
>> - _axes.py contains the Axes class. This class inherists from _AxesBase,
>> and contains all the methods concerning plotting and labelling. It is now
>> 6k loc
>> - _subplots.py contains all the subplots directive.
>>
>> The API has not changed: only the private methods from axes are not
>> directly importable from axes anymore. All tests pass (travis shows a
>> failed test on py3k, which I am not able to reproduce on my computer). The
>> pull request can be seen here: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib
>> /pull/1931
>>
>> Once this is merged, you may need to remove cleanly the previous
>> installed version of matplotlib. Indeed, installing a package replaces
>> the old files, but does not delete them. Thus, installing this new
>> submodule will not remove the axes.py file. Hence, a manual deletion of
>> this file is necessary.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> N
>>
>>
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