Seems like a reasonable request to me. When I use xlim to specify the axes in a plot session, I tend to use it multiple times. Therefore this default behaviour would seem reasonable.
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > The present behavior of set_xlim and set_ylim can be surprising because > making the values stick for subsequent plotting in the same axes > requires manually calling set_autoscalex_on(False) etc. It would seem > more logical if set_xlim itself included the call to turn autoscalex > off--isn't that what a user would almost always want and expect? > > Rectifying this would constitute a significant change affecting some > existing user code. > > What are people's thoughts on this? Should the change made? If so, do > it abruptly, right now, as part of version 1.0? Or phase it in with a > temporary kwarg and/or rcparam? It would be nice to avoid all that > complexity, but may be we can't, except by leaving everything as it is now. > > Eric > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
