Mike,
thanks so much for the response. my intent is to build compound paths that
(ideally) include bezier curve approximations to circle segments and
straight-line elements. the final output will most likely be an SVG file so
it would be nice to keep the beziers. but since i'm new to matplotlib,
i apologize in advance for what is undoubtedly a silly question, but, having
looked through the coding examples and the forum i am still a little
confused...
am i correct in understanding that the only way to draw / display a path on
an axes is by converting it to a PathPatch and adding that to t
