Coding guide pyplot update.

pelson · pelson · commit 7b1e8872b18f · 2012-06-08T16:01:19.000+01:00
diff --git a/doc/devel/coding_guide.rst b/doc/devel/coding_guide.rst
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ Writing examples
 ================
 
 We have hundreds of examples in subdirectories of
-file:`matplotlib/examples`, and these are automatically
+:file:`matplotlib/examples`, and these are automatically
 generated when the website is built to show up both in the `examples
 <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/index.html>`_ and `gallery
 <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html>`_ sections of the
@@ -349,6 +349,17 @@ object::
     print 'datafile', datafile
 
 
+Writing a new pyplot function
+=============================
+
+The :mod:`matplotlib.pyplot` module can be thought of as combination of some
+manually written and some autogenerated functions. Modifications can be made
+to pyplot where the function definition does not explicitly state otherwise
+and autogenerated functions can be modified by changing, and subsequently 
+runnning, the :file:`boilerplate.py` script which will re-generate the complete
+pyplot module inplace, keeping all of the manual content.
+
+
 Testing
 =======
 
