On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Brendan Barnwell <brenb...@brenbarn.net>wrote:
> On 2011-03-07 08:59, Benjamin Root wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Yuri D'Elia<wav...@thregr.org> wrote:
> >> I was reading this at the time:
> >>
> >> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/usage_faq.html
> >>
> >> I inferred pyplot was just a matlab-like interface on top of
> matplotlib,
> >> and figured using directly the matplotlib was acceptable.
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, I am guessing that page is a little out-dated and could be better
> > worded. However, the page does say that the preferred style is the
> pyplot
> > interface. Also notice that it is extremely rare for any of the
> > documentation to directly create the matplotlib objects without the
> pyplot
> > or pylab interface.
>
> I think this documentation should definitely be updated, then.
> I've
> been using matplotlib a lot the last few months and was totally
> unaware that pyplot was "required". Good thing I read this message! :-)
>
> > The interface should create the figure objects, the figure objects should
> > create the axes objects, the axes objects should create the axis objects,
> > and so on and so forth.
>
> That makes perfect sense, but is not at all what's implied by the
> text on the page linked above.
>
> Best wishes,
> --
> Brendan Barnwell
> "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is
> no path, and leave a trail."
> --author unknown
>
>
Tell me what you think about this wording. Don't worry about the links on
the page:
https://github.com/WeatherGod/matplotlib/blob/62a02cce1ef98ff2360049ef31074bd9e82670d3/doc/faq/usage_faq.rst
I greatly appreciate any further comments you have. Your perspective is
invaluable for improving our docs for users like you.
Ben Root
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