Re: [Matplotlib-users] Adding a ready figure to pyplot.

[Anton A. <ant...@gm...>]

Phil Elson <pelson.pub@...> writes:

> 
> I don't have a good answer to this and have had to implement such a
> thing in an outstanding pull request (in my case, I have a figure
> which has been un-pickled and needs re-attaching to pyplot).
> 
> My proposed mechanism goes something like:
> 
> figure = matplotlib.figure.Figure(...)
> 
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> 
> mgr = plt._backend_mod.new_figure_manager_given_figure(num, self)
> 
> Obviously this doesn't even exist on master yet, so if you need this
> functionality from a version before this you will have to reverse
> engineer the pyplot.figure function.

Thank you Phil,

This would be acceptable, although I cannot say that I'm very happy with the way 
matplotlib is organized now. Can you point me to a code example where anything 
like this reverse engineering is done?

Thanks,
Anton