On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > Fernando Perez wrote: >> While chatting today with John, he suggested that a better api for >> this would be to return an *array* of supblots, so that one could >> index them with a[i,j] for the plot in row i, column j. I've >> implemented this already, but before committing it, I have one doubt: >> what to do when nrows==ncols==1, the single subplot case? I'm inclined >> to return only the subplot instead of a one-element array, so that one >> can say >> >> f, a = fig_subplot() >> a.plot(...) >> >> instead of having to do >> >> f, a = fig_subplot() >> a[0].plot(...) >> >> But this means the return value of the function would be: >> - fig, axis if nr=nc=1 >> - fig, axis_array in all other cases. > > The behavior one wants depends on whether one is calling fig_subplot in > a program in which the number of subplots could range from 0 to n, or > whether the call is being made with the number of subplots hardwired. > The latter may be most common, but the former seems like an important > use case. I suggest providing a kwarg, e.g. "squeeze=True" as the > default, to eliminate zero-size-dimensions from the array, and False for > the case where nrows and/or ncols could be zero but one wants to be able > to iterate over the resulting array regardless.
+1 This feels like a clean solution to the problem. Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
