matplotlib-devel Mailing List for matplotlib

These notes, with links, can be read at
http://matplotlib.sf.net/whats_new.html.

 - matlab namespace renamed pylab - see
   http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlib_to_pylab.py for details on
   conversion.  ipython pylab users should grab version 0.6.6.  You
   can import the matlab interface (now known as pylab interface) with

   from pylab import blah              # OK
   from matplotlib.pylab import blah   # OK
   from matplotlib.matlab import blah  # Deprecated

 - contouring with the contour function!!  Thanks to Nadia Dencheva.
   See examples/contour_demo.py

 - matlab compatible set and get introspection to determine settable
   properties and their values.  See examples/set_and_get.py.  Sample
   usage

   >>> lines = plot([1,2,3])  
   >>> set(lines)
       alpha: float
       antialiased or aa: [True | False]
       ...snip lots more...
   >>> get(lines)
       alpha = 1.0
       antialiased or aa = True
       ...snip lots more...

 - Added many new matlab compatible colormaps - autumn bone cool
   copper flag gray hot hsv jet pink prism spring summer winter -
   Thanks Perry!

 - zorder to artists to control drawing order of lines, patches and
   text in axes.  See examples/zorder_demo.py 

 - mathtext in cairo backend.  Also, printing now works to file
   object.  Thanks Steve Chaplin.


 - printing in WX - Matthew Newville contributed a print button and
   preview for the wx backends.  He also, who graciously volunteered
   to be the new wx backend maintainer.

 - matlab interface functions connect and disconnect replace
   mpl_connect and mpl_disconnect for event handling

 - Pass hold=True|False to any plotting command to override the
   current hold setting.  The original hold setting will be restored
   at the end of the plot function

 - all text instances now have a bbox property which is a dict of
   Rectangle properties.  If set, the text instance will display in a
   rectanglular bounding box.  Example usage
    
    title('hi mom', bbox={'facecolor':'r', 'alpha':0.5})

 - legend properties now exposed as kwargs.  See help(legend)

 - ishold to inspect the hold state

 - new plotting functions spy, spy2 for matrix sparsity visualization

 - pylab interface functions rgrids and thetagrids for customizing
   the grid locations and labels for polar plots - see
   examples/polar_demo.py.

 - add ion, ioff and isinteractive to pylab interface for control of
   interactive mode.  See updated discussion at
   http://matplotlib.sf.net/interactive.html

Bugs fixed - 

  - Fixed colorbar bug with scatter - JDH

  - SVG clipping problem - Thanks Norm Peterson

  - numerous small legend bugs fixed

  - zoom to rect works with reversed axis limits - thanks Gregory

  - fontsizing problem fixes, ps plots correctly sized, landscape
    support for ps output

  - smaller, leaner, meaner PS output - Thanks Jochen

  - make the Gtk backends build without an X-server connection -
    Thanks Jochen

 
Downloads at http://matplotlib.sf.net

JDH