Re: [matplotlib-devel] plt.plot projection kwarg

On Saturday, June 4, 2011, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> On 06/04/2011 06:05 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Phil Elson <phi...@ho...
>> <mailto:phi...@ho...>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     The first line of code on the page
>>     http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/add_new_projection.html suggests
>>     that it is possible to give the projection directly to
>>     mpl.pyplot.plot but
>>     this does not work for me.
>>
>>     Should this functionality exist? I am aware that the pyplot.plot
>>     function is
>>     autogenerated by boilerplate.py, but I am a little weary of
>>     modifying that.
>>
>>     Any help gratefully received.
>>
>>
>> Hmm, this doesn't seem 100% logically correct.  I think the only case
>> where this would work correctly is if the plot command would also
>> trigger the creation of a new axes object.  If the axes object already
>> exists, then I seriously doubt this would work as advertised.  Is that
>> the case with your code?
>>
>> Ben Root
>
> Ben,
>
> The first paragraph of that doc page needs repair.  Trivially, there are
> two references to set_xscale.  The problem pointed out above is more
> serious.  plot() has no facility for handling a projection kwarg, and I
> don't think it would make sense to try to add one.  pyplot functions
> that accept the projection kwarg are axes, subplot, and subplots.
>
> Do you want to fix the paragraph, or should I?
>

I can take a look at it tonight.

> Independently, I want to redo the FAQ discussion of draw(), show(), and
> interactive versus non-interactive mode.  It is possible that this topic
> needs more attention elsewhere as well, but I want to start with the FAQ.
>
> Eric
>

Agreed, these are some fundamental functions and probably be set apart
in a "getting started" section, maybe?

Ben Root