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On Sunday, October 30, 2011, Kevin Davies <kda...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't think the web documentation is showing up for the new Sankey
diagram class.  I probably failed to hook it in somehow.  Could someone
please take a look?
>
> The file that would have produced the documentation is
matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/sankey.py.  I expected it would show up at
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/sankey_api.html, but there's no
such page.
>
> The Sankey demos did show up on the examples page and in the gallery.
Also, the overview showed up in the "what's new" page.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin
>

Whoops.  I knew I forgot something.  API docs are generated from adding a
file to doc/api.  I will upload a patch soon.

Ben

30/10/11 00:27, John Hunter
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Antoine Levitt
> <ant...@gm...> wrote:
>> Just typing f = gcf() displays a figure, which I don't want to do. I
>> want to be able to put something in my ipython init file that'd set my
>> bindings, without changing anything else.
>
> This is a reasonable request, though there are some implementation
> details to sort through.  For one, the rc file format is very simple,
> and not amenable to putting in multil-ine functions.  But you could
> write something like
>
>   keybinding.q  : lambda event: plt.close(event.canvas.figure)
>
> Eg, when a key is pressed for which you have associated a lambda, we
> could call your lambda with the event that triggered, and you can
> access attributes like canvas.figure to operate on them.  We could
> eval your lambda in the pyplot namespace.  But more sophisticated
> functions would be difficult to expose given the simplicity of rc
> format.

I was thinking of ipython_config.py, which is full python. Then, add a
hook for a function to be run whenever a figure is created. I don't know
if I can access the matplotlib stuff from ipython_config.py though. I'll
take a look.

Just curious: what's the point of having a specific rc format, instead
of just running python code and defining a few special functions to make
it easier to write a config file? If you want to keep the rc format, why
not add a command to run a python file?

>
> If you are interested in taking a crack at this Antoine, we'd be happy
> to evaluate a pull request.  If not, perhaps I or one of the other
> developers can take a look.

I'll take a look and report back.

>
> Note that in most windowing systems, it is fairly easy to bind a
> keystroke to close a window, so you could get the effect of 'q' w/o
> modifying MPL, though you might need a two keystroke binding,

Defining "q" to mean "quit this window" for every window might be a
little problematic. :-) There's always alt+f4, but I find it a little
bothersome, "q" is much simpler.