On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:27 PM, David Warde-Farley <d...@cs.toronto.edu> > wrote: >> >> An effusive "yes, yes, good god yes!" from this mpl-devel lurker. > > Thanks, that's two good pluses. > > Any suggestions on name changes, or other fixes to make? Otherwise, > once I find a free minute I'll put it in.
I think the name "figsubplots" or "fig_subplots" is better because you are creating Subplot instances. Alternatively, you might want to consider simply "subplots" which returns just the list of subplots: the figure can always be accessed as an attribute of the Subplot instance:: ax1, ax2, ax2, ax4 = subplots(2,2) fig = ax1.figure Not sure that this is better; just a thought. > Should it go into pyplot directly, or elsewhere and imported from > pyplot to expose it at the top-level? (I'm not overly familiar with > the layout of the whole library). pyplots is the right place for it since it is implicitly creating a current figure and the only place where that magic happens is in pyplot. > I'm also trying to show my students how *they* can improve their > tools; e.g. earlier this week a homework problem I wrote up led me to > a useful sympy patch that was quickly upstreamed: This is a worthy goal. One use case I would like to see supported is the sharex/sharey args:: ax1 = fig.add_subplot(211) ax2 = fig.add_subplot(212, sharex=ax1) If there is not an easy way to specify the shared axes with "figaxes" or whatever it is called, I would not use it too often, because my common case is multiple rows of subplots with a common x-axis. One thing that will be nicer with the suggested patch is it makes it easier to change a script where the subplot layout goes from 211 to 311 to 411 (this happens to me all the time as I find I want to plot more stuff for a give time series). I have to change all the 311, 312, 313 to 411, 412, 413, and with your patch it would be a simple change in one line from:: ax1, ax2, ax3 = subplots(3,1) to:: ax1, ax2, ax3, ax4 = subplots(4,1) Perhaps the solution to my sharex conundrum is to support an axes number, eg ax1, ax2, ax3, ax4 = subplots(4,1, sharex=1) so all the subplots would have sharex with ax1. JDH JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
