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

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

Great, that is exciting. What do you think is the best way forward? Should
I open an issue on the matplotlib repo about this? Would there be interest
in doing a Google+ hangout about this at some point?

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:

> On 2015/05/13 7:45 PM, Brian Granger 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.
>>
>
> No question about it: there is more than enough interest.
>
> Eric
>
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...
>> <mailto: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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