[Matplotlib-users] When was axes kwarg rmoved?

Thomas Caswell tcaswell at gmail.com
Thu Oct 31 10:46:07 EDT 2019


Vicki,

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/9111 is trying to _add_ the
ability to pass the axes into the pyplot methods via keyword.   From your
question, I infer that you would like this functionality to exist?

Tom

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 12:28 AM Vicki Brown <vlb at cfcl.com> wrote:

> Thanks. That could be what was happening!
>
> On Oct 25, 2019, at 21:06 , Benjamin Root <ben.v.root at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think it ever was a keyword argument. Now, there have been some
> bugs fixed recently where unused keyword arguments were going through
> without emitting an error, which caused confusion when kwargs were
> misspelled. Perhaps this is the change that is impacting you. To be clear,
> I don't think it never would have done anything in the past.
>
> I hope this helps!
> Cheers!
> Ben Root
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 9:40 PM Vicki Brown <vlb at cfcl.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm hoping someone can tell me (point me to the ChanegLog for) when he
>> axes kwarg was removed from
>> matplotlib.pyplot.clabel, matplotlib.pyplot.contou,
>> and matplotlib.pyplot.contourf.
>>
>> My search has turned up nothing.
>>
>> I have code in an exercise for a class that called:
>>
>>     plt.contourf(xx, yy, Z, cmap=ccolor, alpha=.2, axes=ax)
>>     cs2 = plt.contour(xx, yy, Z, cmap=ccolor, alpha=.6, axes=ax)
>>     plt.clabel(cs2, fmt = '%2.1f', colors = 'k', fontsize=14, axes=ax)
>>
>>
>> when run, this raised errors.
>>
>> I've changed it to
>>
>>     ax.contourf(xx, yy, Z, cmap=ccolor, alpha=.2)
>>     cs2 = ax.contour(xx, yy, Z, cmap=ccolor, alpha=.6)
>>     ax.clabel(cs2, fmt = '%2.1f', colors = 'k', fontsize=14)
>>
>>
>> and the errors are gone. However, a confirming reference would be helpful.
>>
>> -- Vicki
>>
>> Vicki Brown
>> cfcl.com/vlb
>>
>>
>>
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> -- Vicki
>
> Vicki Brown
> cfcl.com/vlb
>
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