Merge pull request #3834 from tacaswell/remove_lod

efiring · efiring · commit 66835a3d4d1f · 2015-05-15T17:15:35.000-10:00
Remove lod
diff --git a/doc/api/api_changes/2014-11-22-remove_lod.rst b/doc/api/api_changes/2014-11-22-remove_lod.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Removed `lod` from Artist
+`````````````````````````
+
+Removed the method *set_lod* and all references to
+the attribute *_lod* as the are not used anywhere else in the
+code base.  It appears to be a feature stub that was never built
+out.
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/artist.py b/lib/matplotlib/artist.py
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ def __init__(self):
         self.clipbox = None
         self._clippath = None
         self._clipon = True
-        self._lod = False
         self._label = ''
         self._picker = None
         self._contains = None
@@ -740,17 +739,6 @@ def set_alpha(self, alpha):
         self._alpha = alpha
         self.pchanged()
 
-    def set_lod(self, on):
-        """
-        Set Level of Detail on or off.  If on, the artists may examine
-        things like the pixel width of the axes and draw a subset of
-        their contents accordingly
-
-        ACCEPTS: [True | False]
-        """
-        self._lod = on
-        self.pchanged()
-
     def set_visible(self, b):
         """
         Set the artist's visiblity.
@@ -834,7 +822,6 @@ def update_from(self, other):
         self.clipbox = other.clipbox
         self._clipon = other._clipon
         self._clippath = other._clippath
-        self._lod = other._lod
         self._label = other._label
         self._sketch = other._sketch
         self._path_effects = other._path_effects
