On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> On 2013/03/24 12:14 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>> So, for plot(), scatter() and other plotting functions, we can provide a
>> label= kwarg so that a legend() can automatically populate the legend,
>> making it extremely easy and convenient for making legends. But for
>> image-based (scalar mappable) type plotting functions like imshow() and
>> contourf(), the label kwarg doesn't do anything useful, but the
>> colorbar() is sort of analogous to a legend(), but for scalar mappables.
>>
>> Does it make sense to others for the following to be equivalent:
>>
>> > plt.imshow(z)
>> > cbar = plt.colorbar()
>> > cbar.set_label('foobar')
>>
>> > plt.imshow(z, label='foobar')
>> > plt.colorbar()
>>
>
> I understand your argument, but it feels a bit odd. To me it would be
> more natural for colorbar() itself to accept a label kwarg. I have no
> idea why I didn't do that long ago.
>
> The two ideas are not mutually exclusive.
Yeah, I agree with Eric here; plt.colorbar(label='foo') feels more
intuitive to me.
>
> Eric
>
>>
>> I found that it is a small change to make this work, I just wanted to
>> know if others think this makes sense before putting in the time to add
>> documentation, modify examples and such.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Ben Root
>>
>>
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