On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > I am curious as to why bar() should even be acting like errorbar(). As a > user, I would expect bar() to do bar graphs and errorbar() to do error bar > graphs. Is there some sort of use-case that I am missing where it makes > sense to generate errorbars from a bar() function?
Some of this stuff is just really old (circa 2003). When you have just a few users and someone sends you a patch, you tend to accept it :-) First we had bar, then we had errorbar, and someone wanted the convenience of easily adding errorbars to bar plots. Over time, these conveniences have grown into a fairly complex interface (xerr, yerr, asymmetric errors). So it has grown more organically than by design and some rationalization and normalization of functionality would be a good thing. We have to balance that with the downsides of code breakage, however. JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
