Eric Firing wrote:
> Both with respect to documentation and functionality, what you are
> encountering is the historical aspect of masked arrays as a tacked-on
> part of python numeric packages, and of matplotlib.
*sigh* I feel lucky ;-)
> Support and
> integration are improving, but still far from perfect.
I wish I could help, but my knowledge is lacking...
> Now with respect to your particular case here, trying to plot a filled
> line with gaps: poly_between has no notion of masked arrays at present.
> If it did, how should it behave?
Well, what I actually settled on was juat doing using:
my_masked_array.filled(0)
...to plot with.
> At the very least, additional
> arguments are needed to specify what should happen for fill-type
> plotting with missing values.
Indeed, what I personally would have liked was a complete gap where the
data is missing, but I guess that would have to return multiple
polygons, and I don't know how that would work?
> provide them in mpl. I would be happy to fix this gap in mpl's handling
> of gappy data,
...heh ;-)
> but I can't make it a priority use of my time right now.
No, I understand :-)
cheers,
Chris
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