Re: [Matplotlib-users] fill area between two curves? fill_between?

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Dirk" ==   <rep...@we...> writes:

    Dirk> John Hunter: Normally I wouldn't waste bandwith in a
    Dirk> mailing-list by sending neither a question nor an answer,
    Dirk> but in this case I feel the urge to thank you for your
    Dirk> support. Your function does exactly what I need and you even
    Dirk> gave a hint on how to implement such functional
    Dirk> extensions. On top of that, the answer came an hour after I
    Dirk> sent the question :-)

Your welcome...  

    Dirk> Do I have to dive into the class description at
    Dirk> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/classdocs.html to get this
    Dirk> informations or is there a more user-friendly description of
    Dirk> the matplotlib internals?

I think the best way, after studying the examples in the examples
directory of the src distribution, is to read through the code in
axes.py.  Almost all  of the plotting functions in matplotlib.matlab
are wrappers for axes plotting functions.  Eg scatter wraps
matplotlib.Axes.scatter, plot wraps matplotlib.Axes.plot and so on.
Most of the axes plotting functions in turn create the primitive
objects that actually make up the plot.  Axes.plot is one of the more
complicated functions, since it does a lot of variable length argument
processing, so it is probably not the best place to start.  

If you have a link to the classdocs open, as you read through the axes
code, you can read the docs for the functions that are being called.

JDH