On 10/25/2013 06:42 PM, Todd wrote:
I think another problem is having pyplot and axes as dumping grounds
for all plot types. This probably made sense back when there were
only a few types of plots, but now there is a massive number of them.
They all end up in one large class with one large documentation page,
making it very hard to find exactly what you are looking for.
In order to make the plots really useful, I definitely think a
reorganization is in order. I think matplotlib needs an general
module, perhaps "plots", that contains sub-modules for different types
of plots (like bar plots), and those sub-modules contain functions,
all of which have an axes object as their first argument. These could
still be attached to axes as methods at least as a transition, but it
would leave the axes class with methods that really have to do with
axes, and not plotting per se. This would also make it possible to
put code shared between plot types with those plot types in their module.
Nelle Varaquoax has already started this work on master. The separation
of core axes functionality from plotting functionality has already been
done, and the next steps involve organizing the plotting functionality
further. This is a gargantuan task, and I'm sure Nelle would appreciate
some assistance if you wanted to coordinate with her.
Mike
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov
<mailto:chris.bar...@noaa.gov>> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Michael Droettboom
<md...@stsci.edu <mailto:md...@stsci.edu>> wrote:
> Here are the notes with action items from the meeting:
thanks for posting that. I see:
pylab - should it stay or should it go?
Comment from the peanut gallery:
Go.
But beyond that, matplotlib.pyplot is a big mess of both the
matlab-style state-machine current figure, current axis stuff, and
what you need to do (at least reasonably on the command line) OO
interface.
This makes it really hard to teach to newbies -- I just did this last
night, and made a point to use tutorials that emphasize the OO
interface (Thanks Ben Root, Katy Huff, and Antony Scopatz, and I'm
sure others that helped put the materials together that I stole
from...). However, there were still a number of examples in there that
just called "plot()" or whatever, and even if there were not, the
namespace is really cluttered with stuff!
Anyone like the idea of an matplotlib.ooplot namespace that would have
just what you need to use the oo style?
-Chris
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