Re: [matplotlib-devel] hist again

2008-05-23 Thread Manuel Metz
Dear all, as there was no disagreeing feedback ;-) I continued my work on the hist() method. I just committed a patch with some major re-writing of the hist() method to the trunk. I personally think it is very useful. hist() now - supports 2D input data (i.e. multiple data, but not yet l

[matplotlib-devel] hist again

2008-05-19 Thread Manuel Metz
Hi, I had one or two more looks at the hist() function. There are a few things I wondered about: (I) Isn't it more intuitive to interpret the "width" keyword as "width relative to the real width of a bin" rather than as an absolute value ? Here is an example, why I think so: Say I want to c