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

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

OK i have the MEP for this on my todo list...

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:

> You could start up a Pull Request describing a MEP that would outline how
> traitlets would be used. The discussion can go on there to flesh out the
> concepts and the guidance documentation. Once that is agreed upon, that PR
> would get merged, and we can then start up a new PR actually implementing
> the MEP.
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:03 AM, Brian Granger <ell...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
>>
>>
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