Re: [matplotlib-devel] method delegation in TextWithDash

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 18:53, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "Darren" == Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:
>
>     Darren> The reason is that TextWithDash has a Text object
>     Darren> attribute and delegates most of its methods to that object
>     Darren> via __getattr__ and __setattr__. Can anyone tell me why
>     Darren> this approach was favored over deriving TextWithDash from
>     Darren> Text?
>
> I think __getattr__ and __setattr__ are mostly evil since they lead to
> hard to debug code and break things like tab completion in ipython and
> object inspection.  I'm +1 for refactoring TextWiithDashes to use
> inheritance or otherwise expose the attributes directly.

OK, I refactored TextWithDash, and my changes passed backend_driver.py. 
setp(axes().get_yticklabels()) gives a comprehensive list as of svn 2206. The 
old TextWithDash is still there, but masked, just in case.

Darren