On Thursday 17 January 2008 09:05:53 am Michael Droettboom wrote: > 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.
I don't know when I would have a chance to look into this (my wife and I are trying to buy a house). Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
