John Hunter wrote: > If you are using mpl svn, please read this as it describes > some fairly major changes. > > Mike Lusignan has been working on adding units support, and as a > consequence, partial support for working with arbitrary types in mpl. > The support is not complete yet, but it is basically working and > compatible with the rest of mpl, so I thought now would be a good time > to integrate it into the svn HEAD (he's been working in a branch) > and get some more eyeballs on it.
John, You accidentally whacked out the new Axes.matshow, so I put it back. I also noticed a few decorators--gasp!--in axes.py. I presume you will want them replaced by old-style syntax to preserve 2.3 compatibility, but I will leave that to you. (After about the 10th or so time of reading a bit about decorators, I think I understand them enough for simple use cases; apart from that ugly and utterly unpythonic @ symbol, maybe they are not as bad as I thought.) The curmudgeon in me has to wonder whether the snazzy unit support is really a good thing; this is partly a question of where the boundary of a plotting library should be. The simpler view (classic mpl) is that the role of mpl is to do a good job plotting numbers and labeling things, and the role of the user or application programmer is to supply the numbers and labels. I am not sure that enough is gained by enabling unit conversion and automatic axis labeling inside a plot command to compensate for the added complexity. My hesitation probably reflects the facts (1) that I don't see any *compelling* use cases in the sort of work I do, (2) I am not familiar with whatever use cases motivated this, (3) I haven't thought about it much yet, and (4) I may be a bit unimaginative. I will try to take a closer look, both at the changes and at the questions you raise in your message, tomorrow. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
