Eric Firing wrote: > Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Hi Sam, >> >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:35, sam tygier <samtyg...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >>> I think this topic has come up before, but i don't think anything has >>> resulted from it. >>> > Correct, because the capability would require a *lot* of work to > implement, and most of us don't see a compelling need; we believe that a > better practice is to structure one's work so that plotting is separated > from data (result) generation in any cases where the latter is highly > time-consuming.
One nice benefit, however, would be that the data could be shipped to another interpreter for plotting without worrying about threads/GIL/etc. So, having an MPL-native plot description would be useful. But, I agree, it would be a lot of work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
