[PyX-devel] [ pyx-Feature Requests-1118152 ] default args for data.(list|file)(x=1,y=2)

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Feature Requests item #1118152, was opened at 2005-02-07 22:00
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Category: Interface Improvements (example)
Group: Next Release (example)
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Francisco Dellatorre Borges (fdborges)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: default args for data.(list|file)(x=1,y=2)

Initial Comment:

All graph data entries must have a x and y coordinates. 

It would be more sensible to determine a default order
for these in the data so as to avoid the typing of
x=1,y=2 at every single data.(list|file) call.

Just as users (e.g.  me) of a cmd line plotting routine
expect to call

$ bozoplot results.dat 

with two columns entries:

0 1
1 3 etc

and have a graph plotting these as x, y. Users (e.g. I)
would expect to be able to call pyx.graph.graphxy.data.
methods without having to specify at every call which
is column x and which is y.

Francisco.

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>Comment By: André Wobst (wobsta)
Date: 2005-02-08 09:06

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Couldn't you do this within your bozoplot command? The point is that 
graph.data.file and the like do not know anything about the column 
names they need to fill with data. It's designed the other way around. 
You provide some data and the graph styles (by the help of the axis 
names available in the graph) will tell you, whether this is a valid 
request. I do not want to stress that too much, especially since we 
currently have an xy graph only, but the axis names could be completely 
different in an polar plot, a 3-d plot etc. And other graph styles like text, 
arrow, errorbars etc. want other data as well. I would not like to see a 
semi-guessing solution in PyX. Comments?

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