Re: [matplotlib-devel] AutoDateFormatter/AutoDateLocator
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Ryan May rma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Anybody know what the status of AutoDateLocator/AutoDateFormatter in matplotlib.dates are? They work and seem reasonably well documented. However, they do not show up in our online docs: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/dates_api.html They show up in the inheritance graph, but are not mentioned elsewhere in the page and in fact have no link from the image. They're also not present in the __all__ in the dates module. If this is just an oversight, what do I need to do to make the classes show up in the docs? Most likely this is just due to an oversight in the __all__ so just add it there in the branch and it should get picked up next time we build the docs JDH -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
Re: [matplotlib-devel] AutoDateFormatter/AutoDateLocator
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:08 PM, John Hunter jdh2...@gmail.com wrote: Most likely this is just due to an oversight in the __all__ so just add it there in the branch and it should get picked up next time we build the docs Done. I also added them to the module-level docstring. Along these lines, I was trying to make use of AutoDateLocator, and as far as I can tell, there's no way to customize its behavior right now. So when trying to use this for doing major and minor ticks, there's no difference. It looks like in the get_locator() method of AutoDateLocator, numticks is used to control what types of ticking (yearly, monthly) is used. Would it make sense to have this as an attribute of self so that the user can tweak it? Or maybe go to: 1) minticks (instead of numticks) which specifies a minimum number of ticks that are desired, to select yearly, monthly, etc. 2) maxticks, which specifies a maximum number of ticks, which can be used to calculate the interval (every N'th month). Right now, the rules for selecting this are hard coded. I'm interested in hacking this up. But since you wrote the code, I want to make sure that going this direction makes sense to you. Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
Re: [matplotlib-devel] AutoDateFormatter/AutoDateLocator
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Ryan May rma...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:08 PM, John Hunter jdh2...@gmail.com wrote: Most likely this is just due to an oversight in the __all__ so just add it there in the branch and it should get picked up next time we build the docs Done. I also added them to the module-level docstring. Along these lines, I was trying to make use of AutoDateLocator, and as far as I can tell, there's no way to customize its behavior right now. So when trying to use this for doing major and minor ticks, there's no difference. It looks like in the get_locator() method of AutoDateLocator, numticks is used to control what types of ticking (yearly, monthly) is used. Would it make sense to have this as an attribute of self so that the user can tweak it? Or maybe go to: 1) minticks (instead of numticks) which specifies a minimum number of ticks that are desired, to select yearly, monthly, etc. 2) maxticks, which specifies a maximum number of ticks, which can be used to calculate the interval (every N'th month). Right now, the rules for selecting this are hard coded. I'm interested in hacking this up. But since you wrote the code, I want to make sure that going this direction makes sense to you. I don't have a strong opinion on this -- making it more customizable is a good thing -- this came up at scipy as well, where I contributed a patch to make the AutoDateFormatter a little more customizable by exposing a scaled dictionary mapping the scale to a format string. As long as the extension to the AutoDateLocator preserves the core functionality, I say have at it. JDH -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
