Hello,
thank you very much for you answer. The oddness clears if you consider
that the generating of the figure might be done in an external library.
Imagine a data analyze package with functions with can also generate one
or more plots. As a library I think here the OO interface is most
Coming from MATLAB, I started using matplotlib in the same fashion (and
was very appreciative of the similariry). That is, I would import pylab
and call the plotting functions as necessary. However, after seeing
some of how others are using matplotlib, it seems most people use axes
object
* John Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070611 16:20]:
So the answer of which is better is a question of skill level and
context, but my simple advice is to use the pylab syntax from the
interactive python shell (and ipython -pylab is ideal for this) and
the API everywhere else. Most of my scripts
