On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
> > Would i be right in assuming that it would take roughly the same amount
> of effort as writing a new backend? ie for each motplotlib action it would
> need a function to store that action and a function to call that action
> again.
>
> It is much more than that; it would take a backend to write out the new
> format, and an interpreter to turn that format back into mpl objects or
> API calls.
I don't think this approach would be viable, because the backend doesn't
know the progeny of the object (eg a tick line). I think to have a proper
serialized format, you would want to do it at the artist layer.
JDH
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