On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Eric Firing <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013/03/24 12:14 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: >> So, for plot(), scatter() and other plotting functions, we can provide a >> label= kwarg so that a legend() can automatically populate the legend, >> making it extremely easy and convenient for making legends. But for >> image-based (scalar mappable) type plotting functions like imshow() and >> contourf(), the label kwarg doesn't do anything useful, but the >> colorbar() is sort of analogous to a legend(), but for scalar mappables. >> >> Does it make sense to others for the following to be equivalent: >> >> > plt.imshow(z) >> > cbar = plt.colorbar() >> > cbar.set_label('foobar') >> >> > plt.imshow(z, label='foobar') >> > plt.colorbar() >> > > I understand your argument, but it feels a bit odd. To me it would be > more natural for colorbar() itself to accept a label kwarg. I have no > idea why I didn't do that long ago. > > The two ideas are not mutually exclusive.
Yeah, I agree with Eric here; plt.colorbar(label='foo') feels more intuitive to me. > > Eric > >> >> I found that it is a small change to make this work, I just wanted to >> know if others think this makes sense before putting in the time to add >> documentation, modify examples and such. >> >> Cheers! >> Ben Root >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >> Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics >> Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel -- Damon McDougall http://www.damon-is-a-geek.com Institute for Computational Engineering Sciences 201 E. 24th St. Stop C0200 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1229 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
