On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Peter Butterworth <butt...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I am considering a patch to support named figures. > > >> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3057301&group_id=80706&atid=560723 > Tracker: Feature Requests > pls support named figures - ID: 3057301 > > instead of only: > plt.figure(1) > the following: > plt.figure('today') > would open a figure called 'today' instead of 'figure 1' > > Example usage: when opening a lot of tabbed figures (in Spyder) it > would help if the tabs have meaningful names. > >> > > I have been successful at modifying pyplot.figure to handle string > arguments. For this I store the figure name in the _label attribute of > the figure in addition to setting the expected plot number value. My > hack seems to works on qt4agg backend (it does requires adding an > optional label argument to the FigureManagerQT constructor). > > Is there interest in including such a patch in matplotlib ? Is it > likely to break things elsewhere ? > > -- > thanks, > peter butterworth > > That would be a neat feature. Which other backends have you tested? I presume that numbers still work as usual? Ben Root
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