Ted Drain wrote:
> Manuel,
> We do plots like this all the time.  One thing we've found that's nice 
> to have is a keyword that controls when the increase in y happens.  We 
> use a step style keyword that can be 'pre' (go up then right), 'post' 
> (go right then up), and 'mid' (right 0.5, up, right 0.5). 
Good idea.
> 
> Regarding your patch, you might want to check other areas in MPL for 
> data processing examples.  I could be wrong but I'm not sure you can 
> assume that incoming data is a float.  Some of the unit conversion 
> examples or the line collection code might have better examples.

Incoming data can be any numeric type, but it ends up getting converted 
to the default float type (not float32) internally.

Whenever possible, it is good to support masked array input.

Eric
> 
> Ted
> 
> At 07:59 AM 8/14/2007, Manuel Metz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have created a patch against latest svn that adds a function step to 
>> the axes class to plot step-functions ;-) It's really simple but nice 
>> ... Any interest in adding this?
>>
>> Manuel
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Index: axes.py
>> ===================================================================
>> --- axes.py     (revision 3709)
>> +++ axes.py     (working copy)
>> @@ -4995,6 +4995,18 @@
>>                                                   steps=[1, 2, 5, 10],
>>                                                   integer=True))
>>          return im
>> +   
>> +    def step(self, x, y, *args, **kwargs):
>> +        x2 = npy.zeros((2*len(x)), npy.float32)
>> +        y2 = npy.zeros((2*len(x)), npy.float32)
>> +       
>> +        x2[0::2] = x
>> +        x2[1::2] = x
>> +       
>> +        y2[1::2] = y
>> +        y2[2::2] = y[:-1]
>> +           
>> +        self.plot(x2, y2, *args, **kwargs)
>>  
>>  class SubplotBase:
>>      """
>>
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