Hi,
mpl_toolkit.axes_grid.AxesGrid uses a custom axes type as the default
type of axes it creates. I think it might be more user-friendly to use
matplotlib.axes.Axes as the default -- the functionality in basic use
seems to be the same.
The custom axes handle drawing ticks quite differently from matplotlib's
usual Axes. I just spent an hour wondering why
grid[0].xaxis.get_major_ticks()[-1].label.set_horizontalalignment("right")
had no effect -- the answer is that LocatableAxis draws ticks using a
custom tick artist, and that the correct axis object is in
grid[0].axes["bottom"]. And in fact, it cannot adjust the align of
individual tick labels.
The AxesGrid is really useful, so I'd suggest the following change:
--- lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/axes_grid.py.orig 2009-10-27
19:51:43.000000000 +0200
+++ lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/axes_grid.py 2009-10-27 19:52:13.000000000
+0200
@@ -210,10 +210,10 @@
if axes_class is None:
- axes_class = LocatableAxes
+ axes_class = maxes.Axes
axes_class_args = {}
else:
- if isinstance(axes_class, maxes.Axes):
+ if issubclass(axes_class, maxes.Axes):
axes_class_args = {}
else:
axes_class, axes_class_args = axes_class
--
Pauli Virtanen
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