Re: [matplotlib-devel] units support in svn

2007-03-21 Thread Fernando Perez
On 3/21/07, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/21/07, Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And yes, properties are actually OK even with 2.2, so there's no > > reason to avoid them (and they do provide a nicer, claner user API). > > Decorators are 2.4-only though. > > I'm not

Re: [matplotlib-devel] units support in svn

2007-03-21 Thread John Hunter
On 3/21/07, Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And yes, properties are actually OK even with 2.2, so there's no > reason to avoid them (and they do provide a nicer, claner user API). > Decorators are 2.4-only though. I'm not opposed to properties in principle -- I just didn't want to sta

Re: [matplotlib-devel] units support in svn

2007-03-21 Thread Eric Firing
Fernando Perez wrote: > On 3/21/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Properties would be OK for 2.3; I was thinking we might want to use >> them. When a getter and setter already exist, all it takes is the one >> extra line of code, plus a suitable (unused) name for the property. I >>

Re: [matplotlib-devel] units support in svn

2007-03-20 Thread Fernando Perez
On 3/21/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Properties would be OK for 2.3; I was thinking we might want to use > them. When a getter and setter already exist, all it takes is the one > extra line of code, plus a suitable (unused) name for the property. I > decided not to pursue traits

Re: [matplotlib-devel] units support in svn

2007-03-20 Thread Eric Firing
> > And I've gotten the units.py module down to a digestable 105 lines of > code! You must have done more work after writing your message--now wc reports only 87 lines! Thanks for all the explanations (I am gradually coming around...) and additional work. Minor points from a quick look at axe

Re: [matplotlib-devel] units support in svn

2007-03-20 Thread John Hunter
On 3/20/07, Norbert Nemec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree, though, that the units package itself should not be part of > matplotlib. But this is exactly > how I understand the idea by John Hunter: describe an interface to allow > the use of any third-party > unit package. That's exactly righ

Re: [matplotlib-devel] units support in svn

2007-03-20 Thread Ted Drain
FYI The unit system John is working on will be a huge improvement for the way we use MPL. Our users do a ton of plotting that involves unitized numbers vs time. We have our own unit class and time class and right now users have to convert the unitized numbers into floats in the correct units

Re: [matplotlib-devel] units support in svn

2007-03-20 Thread Norbert Nemec
Actually, I like the idea of unit support quite a bit and could well imagine that it makes sense to support it explicitely in matplotlib. I am using physical units very frequently in my computations. Lacking a robust units package, I simply define the units as numerical constants without checks

Re: [matplotlib-devel] units support in svn

2007-03-20 Thread Darren Dale
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 3:50:07 am Eric Firing wrote: > John Hunter wrote: > > If you are using mpl svn, please read this as it describes > > some fairly major changes. > > > > Mike Lusignan has been working on adding units support, and as a > > consequence, partial support for working with arbitr

Re: [matplotlib-devel] units support in svn

2007-03-19 Thread Eric Firing
John Hunter wrote: > If you are using mpl svn, please read this as it describes > some fairly major changes. > > Mike Lusignan has been working on adding units support, and as a > consequence, partial support for working with arbitrary types in mpl. > The support is not complete yet, but it is bas