[Matplotlib-users] strange inconsistency

[Fabrice Silva]

Le vendredi 08 janvier 2016, Neal Becker a écrit :
> In the following script, in the call to hexbin, I can use
> ax.hexbin
> or
> plt.hexbin
> 
> but in the call to colorbar, I can only use
> plt.colorbar
> not
> ax.colorbar
> 
> This seems strangely inconsistent

Because the colorbar is not attached to the axes instance, but to the
figure instance as it can illustrate any Image, ContourSet, etc... in
the figure.