Re: [matplotlib-devel] Reorganizing axes plot methods

[Nelle V. <nel...@gm...>]

On 18 July 2013 15:27, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:

> On 07/17/2013 04:57 PM, Eric Firing wrote:
> > On 2013/07/17 3:14 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> >> Yes.  This is great work!
> >>
> >> Just to chime in (after having been away for most of this conversation)
> -->
> >>
> >> I think we can do this reorganization now without introducing any
> >> implicit (or otherwise) use of gca()/pyplot stuff in the Axes class
> >> methods.  Refactoring how the pyplot wrapper is done can be done as a
> >> separate project at a later time (or even in parallel if someone wants
> >> to, since all of Nelle's work at the end of the day doesn't change the
> >> Axes interface).
> >>
> >> My only other comment (and I mentioned this in PR #2213 as well) is that
> >> having the short stub functions in the Axes class in addition to the
> >> actual implementations elsewhere introduces a new
> >> synchronization/maintenance problem between the two.  Maybe it makes
> >> sense to merely add the implementation functions to the Axes class
> >> namespace dynamically.  Magical, sure, but should have ultimately the
> >> same result as far as introspection, autocompletion and other IPython
> >> goodness is concerned.
> >>
> >> Mike
> > Mike,
> >
> > One other option is to have the new private modules include mixin
> > classes from which Axes would inherit methods.  There would be a lot of
> > mixins, and this would be an example of the dreaded multiple
> > inheritance, but it would be simple and explicit, with no magic.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
> I think either approach is fine as far as I'm concerned, though what
> Eric suggests is probably a bit simpler in terms of lines of code.
>

I'm attempting an implementation of
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/2213 using mixins, to get my
head around this idea.
I'll keep you posted on the code.


>
> Mike
>
>
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