Darren Dale wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008 08:22:45 am Michael Droettboom wrote: >> But reading Darren's new bug report makes me wonder if my fix was >> correct. To be honest, I'm a little confused by the bug report, not out >> of any lack of clarity on Darren's part, but I think due to insufficient >> understanding of the problem. As assumption about the purpose of cla is >> that is should return the plot to a pristine state -- and in this case >> that means linear axes. But are you suggesting that sometimes that is >> not the case? > > If you have hold=True, and the x or y scale is log, repeated calls to plot() > will add new lines to the plot without changing the scaling. If hold is > instead False, one might reasonably expect that future calls to plot would > replace the old line with the new one, again without changing the scaling. > That would be consistent. Instead, the scaling changes.
That indeed is a problem. I suspect it has something to do with the extra step that log scales do to "round" to the nearest decade. I can have a look when I get a chance, or let me know if you'd like to tackle it, Darren. Cheers, Mike -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
