[matplotlib-devel] Named figures support

2010-09-12 Thread Peter Butterworth
I am considering a patch to support named figures. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3057301group_id=80706atid=560723 Tracker: Feature Requests pls support named figures - ID: 3057301 instead of only: plt.figure(1) the following: plt.figure('today') would open a figure called

[matplotlib-devel] Sample data: a proposal

2010-09-12 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
A while ago there was a discussion [1] about how using the get_sample_data function in building the documentation is a problem for Debian packagers. Let me see if I understand the goals of get_sample_data correctly: * we want to enable users to run examples they find in the gallery without

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Sample data: a proposal

2010-09-12 Thread Andrew Straw
On 09/12/2010 07:10 AM, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: A while ago there was a discussion [1] about how using the get_sample_data function in building the documentation is a problem for Debian packagers. Let me see if I understand the goals of get_sample_data correctly: * we want to enable users

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Sample data: a proposal

2010-09-12 Thread John Hunter
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Andrew Straw straw...@astraw.com wrote: #1 and #2 seem reasonable to me. I don't like #3 -- for the same reasons as we want to separate the rest I agree with Andrew here -- we don't want to hamstring our ability to change the data just because some people

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Named figures support

2010-09-12 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Peter Butterworth butt...@gmail.comwrote: I am considering a patch to support named figures. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=3057301group_id=80706atid=560723 Tracker: Feature Requests pls support named figures - ID: 3057301 instead of only:

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Named figures support

2010-09-12 Thread butterw
Le 12 sept. 2010 18:08, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu a écrit : That would be a neat feature. Which other backends have you tested? I presume that numbers still work as usual? Ben Root I've tested it on TkAgg and Qt4Agg which are the only backends I use. Numbers should be working just as

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Sample data: a proposal

2010-09-12 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Andrew Straw straw...@astraw.com writes: 3. To make this work, agree that sample data files are immutable: if a new version is needed, it needs to have a new name (and thus the examples using it need to be updated). The files have not been changed a lot [2], so I don't think this