Re: [matplotlib-devel] Question about getters and setters.

[Brian G. <ell...@gm...>]

I should note that *all* of ipython is based on traitlets, so by now it is
very stable, battle tested (also actively developed). For base layers like
this, I think that is important.

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Neil Girdhar <mis...@gm...>
wrote:

> This is very exciting!  traitlets looks really nice.  (Imho better than
> params from my cursory look.)
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Brian Granger <ell...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> We (ipython/jupyter) have been talking some more about integrating
>> matplotlilb in deeper ways with the interactive widgets framework. That
>> only thing that would be required to make this *trivial* is having a
>> traitlet's based API for matplotlib. I have even started to look at
>> wrapping the existing mpl OO API using traitlets to start to explore this.
>> Once this was done, it would be quite easy to autogenerate UIs for any
>> aspect of Matplotlib.
>>
>> Now that traitlets is a standalone pure python package:
>>
>> https://github.com/ipython/traitlets
>>
>> this would be much easier to pull off.
>>
>> If there is interest in this, we might even be able to help do some of
>> the work. Let us know if there is enough interest to discuss this further.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015/05/13 5:47 PM, Neil Girdhar wrote:
>>> > You're right.  My angle is I just want the setters and getters.
>>> Writing
>>> > set_ and get_ feels like the C++ prison I thought I had escaped :)
>>> >
>>> John Hunter once commented that if he were doing it over again he would
>>> not have put in all the set_ and get_; they were a legacy of his origins
>>> as a C++ programmer.  I think he would have started with simple
>>> attributes, which would have been adequate in the early stages.
>>> Properties were very new--only introduced in Python 2.2, at the end of
>>> 2001.
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
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