Re: [Matplotlib-users] Options for speeding up matplotlib, spectrogram with log scale axis, etc.

[Mike K. <mc...@gm...>]

On 10/9/12 10:03 PM, Jody Klymak wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
>>   The pcolormesh docstring notes that it is
>> much faster than pcolor; the pcolor docstring probably should refer
>> people to pcolormesh, since matlab users are likely to go straight to
>> pcolor without realizing that they should be using pcolormesh.
>
> I'd agree with this.  pcolormesh is not even in the "See Also", and there is no warning about the effciency of pcolor.
>
> I'd even go so far as to suggest that pcolor be deprecated so new users are more likely to find pcolormesh.

While we're on this subject, pcolorfast doesn't have a pyplot function 
and its documentation refers to pcolor rather than itself. Also pcolor 
and pcolormesh ought to See Also this (or is it still experimental?)

M