On Mar 15, 2013 4:01 PM, "Christophe BAL" <projet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I really appreciate the work done by matplotlib but I really think that
> the interface must evolve. Here is a small example.
>
> object.set_something(...)
> object.get_something()
>
> It could be easier to use a jQuery like style as in the following lines.
>
> object(...)
> object()
>
> This will considerably simplify things.
>
>
> Here is a more realistic example.
>
> fig = pylab.figure()
> ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
>
> ax.set_xlabel("xLabel")
> ax.set_ylabel("yLabel")
>
> The a jQuery like style would be as in the following lines.
>
> fig = pylab.figure()
> ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
>
> ax(xlabel = "xLabel", ylabel = "yLabel")
>
> I don't know enough matplotlib to propose other examples
> but I really think that there is a lot of things that could make
> matplotlib much more Pythonicly easy to use.
>
> Christophe BAL
>
I don't personally like this approach. Python has very clear separation
between the initialization of methods, which acts like a function that
returns an instance, and the modification of existing instances, which uses
attributes. This syntax muddies the distinction, having something that
should behave like an instance instead behaving as a function.
Is there any precedence for using this sort of syntax in python? I have
not seen it anywhere else. You mention jQuery, but that is JavaScript not
python. As far as I have seen
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