Re: [matplotlib-devel] Reorganizing axes plot methods

[Tony Yu <ts...@gm...>]

Nelle, this is great! Thanks for getting the ball rolling!

Cheers,
-Tony


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Nelle Varoquaux
<nel...@gm...>wrote:

> FYI, I have started the refactoring we discussed at scipy. I think
> what tony is suggesting is the same thing.
>
> I've created a "work in progress" pull request:
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/2213
>
> In the refactoring we discussed at Scipy, we did not mention the
> pyplots wrapper at all. It does not impact pyplot or the axes module
> at all as it doesn't change the API at all. If we want to do something
> more in depth that impacts the API, I think it would be worth writing
> a MEP.
>
> Thanks,
> N
>
>
> On 11 July 2013 13:12, Anton Akhmerov <ant...@gm...> wrote:
> > Eric Firing <efiring@...> writes:
> >>
> >> Anton,
> >>
> >> Yes, I have done things like that in my own code, and basemap has a
> >> similar ability to call gca() when an Axes is not supplied.  One can
> >> even perform the pyplot import on an as-needed basis instead of raising
> >> an error. Nevetheless, it still represents what I view as a big change
> >> in mpl design, scrambling the state machine pyplot layer into the OO
> >> layer.  Sometimes this sort of thing is good, sometimes it isn't.  In
> >> the present case, I am far from convinced that it would be good.  I
> >> don't see any real benefit at all over the present design.  I think that
> >> for the sanity of the developers, if nothing else, it is important to
> >> maintain some clear layering and hierarchy.
> >>
> >> Eric
> >>
> >
> > I completely agree with that, and I just wanted to point out the
> possibility.
> > With the proposed separation of the plots to a separate module, I think,
> the
> > reasonable thing for pyplot would be to wrap the corresponding plot
> functions
> > by feeding gca into the axis argument.
> >
> > PS for what I think, pyplot right now is way too thick of a layer,
> > obstructing an API use of backends.
> >
> > Anton
> >
> >
> >
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