Re: [matplotlib-devel] matplotlib Hangout today at 14:00 UTC (10:00am ET)

[Chris B. <chr...@no...>]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Todd <tod...@gm...> wrote:

> I think one thing that contributes a lot to the API issues is the
> inconsistency between pyplot API and the OO API.  There isn't any reason
> the APIs need to be so different.
>

indeed.

I hadn't even realized how different they were.


> So the idea would be to have essentially all of the pyplot functions just
> be wrappers for methods from other classes, using the same name and same
> call signature (minus "self").  All of the actual functionality would be
> implemented in the methods, the pyplot functions should not have any logic
> or tests.
>

+ inf

However, doing this with full backward compatibility could be a real
challenge...

This will make it easy to transition between the two, learning to use the
> OO interface would just involve learning what object the pyplot function is
> targeting (this should be in the pyplot function docstring).
>

That would help, though a namespace without any non-OO stuff would be still
be good, and, of course, docs and tutorials.

-Chris

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