Re: [matplotlib-devel] Reorganizing axes plot methods

2013-07-09 Thread Tony Yu
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Nelle Varoquaux wrote: > On 9 July 2013 08:24, Eric Firing wrote: > > On 2013/07/08 7:19 PM, Tony Yu wrote: > >> This is an idea that's been kicking around in my head for awhile. > >> Basically, the Axes class is way too expansive. Nelle made a major step > >> in t

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Reorganizing axes plot methods

2013-07-09 Thread Tony Yu
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Eric Firing wrote: This would require pyplot to be imported by everything, wouldn't it? > That would completely defeat the strategy of having an OO level that > doesn't know about pyplot at all, and then having pyplot be the thin top > layer. > Ahh, you're right

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Reorganizing axes plot methods

2013-07-09 Thread Thomas A Caswell
I second Eric's concern about pyplot being imported into everything. It will really mess up the people that are embedding matplotlib into guis because pyplot starts up gui mainloops if you are using an interactive backend. There is a genre of question on SO that is 'why isn't pyplot playing nice w