Re: [matplotlib-devel] numpification and imports

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

John Hunter wrote:
> On 7/13/07, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> 
>> No, it is not your installation.  You have identified an area that needs
>> work, after we settle on a possibly new import and namespace strategy.
> 
> This is definitely something new -- help(pylab) used to display the
> rather extensive pylab doc string, which starts with in pylab.py:
> 
> ""
> This is a matlab(TM) style interface to matplotlib.
> 
> The following plotting commands are provided; some of these do not
> exist in matlab(TM) but have proven themselves to be useful
> nonetheless.
> The majority of them, however, have matlab analogs
> ...snip
> """
> 
> Are eggs doing something fishy here?  This is a weird one.
> JDH

But it does it on linux, not using eggs.  I couldn't figure it out--just 
  assumed it had always done that, and I had never noticed.

Still, the matplotlib/__init__.py docstring could be changed to make 
clear the distinction between mpl and the pylab interface.  Instead, it 
talks only about the latter:

efiring@manini:~/programs/py/mpl/matplotlib_units/lib/matplotlib$ head 
__init__.py
"""
This is a matlab(TM) style functional interface the matplotlib.

The following matlab(TM) compatible commands are provided by

    >>> from pylab import *

Plotting commands

   axes     - Create a new axes


Eric