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Dear André, dear Jörg,

thanks a lot for your replies. The hint with None helps me to do what
I need.

It probably could be debated what the expected behavior is. As far as
I understand, None applies only for the last entry in a stack. So one
could keep (2, 2, 3) for three bar pieces but would need to replace
(2, 2) by (2, None). I am not sure whether this is very consistent
although it is of course well defined.

Having an extra flag like André had proposed, seems very nice from a
user perspective because it avoids the need to write an extra filter
(of course, it would need to be written for PyX). In my present
application, I sometimes encounter data where no problem with boxes of
zero height arises and I would be tempted to forget about filtering. But
the data for next year could be different and I get bitten by not having
implemented a filter. Setting a flag could be done routinely instead.

Concerning explicit vs. implicit: Of course, I agree that explicit is
better, but I would have expected that a bar of height 0 has zero height
and not a finite height. But I can see your point, Jörg, that other users
might expect to see something rather than nothing and in some cases this
might be the desired behavior.

Best regards,
Gert

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