Re: [matplotlib-devel] plt.plot projection kwarg

2011-06-04 Thread Benjamin Root
On Saturday, June 4, 2011, Eric Firing wrote: > On 06/04/2011 06:05 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Phil Elson > > wrote: >> >> >>     The first line of code on the page >>     http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/add_new_projection.ht

Re: [matplotlib-devel] plt.plot projection kwarg

2011-06-04 Thread Eric Firing
On 06/04/2011 09:45 AM, Phil Elson wrote: > > I think the only case where this would work correctly is if the plot > command would also trigger the creation of a new axes object. > Can't see how this can ever happen given the pyplot.plot code, which > creates a standard axes without passing throug

Re: [matplotlib-devel] plt.plot projection kwarg

2011-06-04 Thread Eric Firing
On 06/04/2011 09:08 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > Independently, I want to redo the FAQ discussion of draw(), show(), and > interactive versus non-interactive mode. It is possible that this topic > needs more attention elsewhere as well, but I want to start with the FAQ. I think I will move the "show

Re: [matplotlib-devel] plt.plot projection kwarg

2011-06-04 Thread Phil Elson
> I think the only case where this would work correctly is if the plot command > would also trigger the creation of a new axes object. Can't see how this can ever happen given the pyplot.plot code, which creates a standard axes without passing through any arguments. I agree that there are situ

Re: [matplotlib-devel] plt.plot projection kwarg

2011-06-04 Thread Eric Firing
On 06/04/2011 06:05 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Phil Elson > wrote: > > > The first line of code on the page > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/add_new_projection.html suggests > that it is possible to give the proje

Re: [matplotlib-devel] plt.plot projection kwarg

2011-06-04 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Phil Elson wrote: > > The first line of code on the page > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/add_new_projection.html suggests > that it is possible to give the projection directly to mpl.pyplot.plot but > this does not work for me. > > Should this functionali

[matplotlib-devel] plt.plot projection kwarg

2011-06-04 Thread Phil Elson
The first line of code on the page http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/add_new_projection.html suggests that it is possible to give the projection directly to mpl.pyplot.plot but this does not work for me. Should this functionality exist? I am aware that the pyplot.plot function is autogenera