On Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 11:24:56 PM UTC, Travis Scrimshaw wrote:
>
>
> > I don't think plot, unlike show, actually goes through and does the 
>> > rendering of the image and discards the result. However, I could be 
>> > wrong about this. 
>>
>> You were right. After 
>>
>> perl -e 's/(G|g)\.show\(\)/_=\1.plot()/g;' -p -i.bak 
>> src/sage/graphs/generators/platonic_solids.py 
>>
>> the test time dropped from 3,5 to 0,5 seconds. 
>>
>
> Thank you for testing it and having some hard evidence! 
>
>>
>> Should it be on TESTS or in EXAMPLES? 
>>
>>  It doesn't matter to me.
>

I think it does matter for the user: in EXAMPLES one should put examples 
useful for the user, and
G.show() is more flexible, e.g. one can do  G.show(method="js") to show G 
in the browser.

Dima

>
> Best,
> Travis
>
>

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