Re: [Matplotlib-users] overwriting suptitle?

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Skipper Seabold <jss...@gm...>wrote:

> Is there a way to overwrite suptitle? When using 3rd party libs that
> return a figure, if they set suptitle and don't give you the text
> object back then you can't overwrite it? This doesn't seem right to
> me.
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10559144/matplotlib-suptitle-prints-over-old-title
>
> Skipper
>
>
Correct, this still seems to be the case.  Looking at the code in
figure.py, the suptitle() function just creates a text object and places it
at a default location.  Then it simply returns the object without saving a
reference to it being a figure title.  The only reference kept is in the
self.texts list that it keeps.  I see no reason why it has to be this way,
though, and would certainly welcome a patch to fix this oversight (would
make the code involving bbox_tight to be more simple, I think.

Ben Root