Re: [matplotlib-devel] New backend API

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

On Tuesday 04 April 2006 16:48, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "Darren" == Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:
>
>     Darren> I see a draw_lines_testing in backend_ps. I think it could
>     Darren> be a good approach, but it doesnt make it very easy to
>     Darren> skip unplottable elements like nans, infs.  Could xy_tup
>     Darren> accept a kwarg to make it raise an error when it tries to
>     Darren> transform an inf or a nan?
>
> I don't see why not.  Alternatively, the nan testing could be done in
> "drawone".   I was planning on filtering the path in chunks (eg 100
> verts at a time) through drawone using map or listcomps, which should
> be faster and will not violate the max path size of some postscript
> interpreters.  But I didn't get that far when my wife made me go to
> bed.  So if you want to pick up where I left off, feel free.

Ok, I finished it off, unmasked it, and made similar changes to draw_markers. 
Changes in svn 2257.

Darren