On Wed, 4/30/14, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:
Subject: [Matplotlib-users] Which api to learn?
To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 7:49 AM
I've never used matlab (and hope
never to have to). But I've been using pyplot
api for mpl for quite
an api.
I don't care so much if pyplot agrees with matlab or not, but it should be
something easy that new users can pick up quickly.
Best,
-Michiel
On Wed, 4/30/14, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:
Subject: [Matplotlib-users] Which api
:
Subject: [Matplotlib-users] Which api to learn?
To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 7:49 AM
I've never used matlab (and hope
never to have to). But I've been using pyplot
api for mpl for quite a while.
Is there any good reason
I've never used matlab (and hope never to have to). But I've been using pyplot
api for mpl for quite a while.
Is there any good reason to move to the native mpl api and drop pyplot? I
ask
because as I understand, pyplot is intended as a matlab workalike, and since I
never learned matlab I
I wrote up my answer to this question on stackoverflow once:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19895262/when-to-use-the-matplotlib-pyplot-class-and-when-to-use-the-plot-object-matplot/21004357#21004357
Others may have different opinions or variations on the theme, but this is
how I look at the
The only pyplot function I let myself use is plt.subplots() to quickly
create the Figure and Axes objects. From that point on, I operate on those
objects directly. Frankly, it reads almost exactly like pyplot code, but it
is a *lot* more clear what's going on.
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 4:49 AM,
Paul Hobson wrote:
The only pyplot function I let myself use is plt.subplots() to quickly
create the Figure and Axes objects. From that point on, I operate on those
objects directly. Frankly, it reads almost exactly like pyplot code, but it
is a *lot* more clear what's going on.
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