Re: [Matplotlib-users] overwriting suptitle?

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> On 2012/09/16 8:54 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Skipper Seabold <jss...@gm...
>> <mailto: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.
>
> OK, I guess I see the problem now: Figure.suptitle really should be able
> to replace a prior suptitle, and the most straightforward way to
> facilitate this is with an explicit reference kept by the Figure.
>
> Eric
>
>>
>> Ben Root
>>
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Fixed in https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1276.

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