[matplotlib-devel] mlab: please check

2007-08-12 Thread Eric Firing
mlab.py in svn has now been changed quite a bit: 1) It uses straight numpy. 2) In many but not all cases, I tried to simplify algorithms by using numpy capabilities. I did some testing, but beware: there may be new bugs. 3) For functions with numpy equivalents I put in deprecation warnings, wit

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mlab: please check

2007-08-12 Thread Fernando Perez
On 8/12/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mlab.py in svn has now been changed quite a bit: > > 1) It uses straight numpy. > 2) In many but not all cases, I tried to simplify algorithms by using > numpy capabilities. I did some testing, but beware: there may be new bugs. > 3) For functio

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mlab: please check

2007-08-12 Thread Christopher Barker
Fernando Perez wrote: > On 8/12/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> mlab.py in svn has now been changed quite a bit: > But if I may make a small comment, in my view MPL should simply not > contain any numerics, period (beyond that needed for plotting > functions). For the most part,m I

Re: [matplotlib-devel] mlab: please check

2007-08-12 Thread Eric Firing
Christopher Barker wrote: [...] > > Does internal MPL code rely on mlab? if so, it needs to be part of some > core lib that is stable enough to be a MPL dependency. > Good question. With a couple of minor exceptions (which are easily handled), the only dependency is in axes methods that I don'

Re: [matplotlib-devel] small fix needed

2007-08-12 Thread Eric Firing
Brandon, I could add that method very easily, but do we really need it? Is there a compelling use case? You can always access the title directly as an attribute of the axes instance. xlabel and ylabel are other things for which there is a setter but not a getter. This dates from before my