Matplotlib's pyplot retains quite a few vestiges from its original Matlab-workalike heritage; we would like to gradually eliminate those that no longer make sense. One such candidate is the "hold" kwarg that every pyplot function has, with a "True" default. I don't think it serves any useful purpose now, and getting rid of it would allow considerable simplification to the code and, to a lesser extent, the documentation. The default behavior would not change, only the ability to change that behavior via either the rcParams['axes.hold'] parameter or the "hold" kwarg in a pyplot function call.
If you routinely use 'hold=False' and believe that removing it would be a mistake, please let us know. Thanks. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
