Re: [matplotlib-devel] Adding Matlab's fplot to Axes

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 08:38:07PM -0400, Benjamin Root wrote:
> On Monday, July 23, 2012, Eric Firing wrote:
> 
> > On 2012/07/23 11:43 AM, Damon McDougall wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > So, as per Philip's suggestion
> > > (https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/737) I've started
> > > encapsulating fplot functionality into a class. The point of this is so
> > > that the user can call either of the following:
> > >
> > > FPlot_instance = ax.fplot(f, [x0, y0, x1, y1])
> > > ax.fplot(FPlot_instance, ...)
> >
> > The second of these seems odd to me; I would expect FPlot_instance to
> > have a __call__ method, so the normal use of an existing instance would be
> >

That is awesome! I didn't know the __call__ method existed! That's a
much better way of doing it. I love Python.

> >
> > FPlot_instance(...)
> >
> > Also, regarding the second argument in the first form: I would think it
> > more natural to split it up into a required [x0, x1] and an optional
> > [y0, y1], with autoscaling if it is not provided.
> >
> > Eric
> 
> 
> Agreed, it is a bit odd/awkward, and I also agree about autoscaling.
> 
> With the whole viewlims callbacks, make sure you have the class disconnect
> itself upon removal, such as through cla().
>

So are you suggesting autoscaling over a callback?

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> Cheers!
> Ben Root

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