Re: [matplotlib-devel] API additions

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On 10/4/07, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:

>      def invert_xaxis(self, invert=True):
>
>          "Invert the x-axis if 'invert' is True."
>

I like this approach over a state flag (I agree with Eric that it
would be nice to avoid if we can since it complicates communication
between different parts of the Axes and Axis code).  But why do we
need an invert kwarg.  I would imagine that invert_xaxis might work
like

def invert_xaxis(self):
    left, right = self.get_xlim()
    self.set_xlim(right, left)

then you could toggle back and forth

and xaxis_inverted would work as you propose.

JDH