On 26 August 2012 18:19, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote: > I understand the comments about the difficulty of introspection. The > reason it works the way it does is so that additional parameters can be > added to the artist layer without needing to update every single > plotting function. A real world example of this is when hatching was > added -- that feature only had to be added in one place and most artists > were able to use it. In that sense, I think this approach is very > beautiful in terms of code maintainability and extensibility.
I'm jumping into this conversation a bit late, but from Python 3.3 it will be possible to set a __signature__ attribute on a function, using a Signature object which can be programmatically generated. So it should be possible, with a bit of legwork, to introspect pass-through parameters without having to manually declare them at the highest level. The details are here: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0362/ Thanks, Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
