On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee.j.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: >>> Or, how about we make axes an context manager. >> >> This would require dropping support for Python 2.4. > > I don't think making the Axes a context manager means dropping python > 2.4 support > (note that I'm not saying we use "with" statement in the mpl source). > Everything should work fine in python 2.4 (please correct me if I'm wrong). > It just gives a user a choice. If a user runs his/her script with > python 2.5 and higher, he/she has an option to use an axes as an > context manager. Of course, if he/she want his/her own code supported > in python 2.4, he/she should not use "with" statement.
I see what you're saying. While the use of the language syntax is restricted to 2.5 and above, we could add the needed methods to the Axes object, which would just be ignored by python <2.5. That's not a bad idea. I'm +1 on the idea. 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
