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No one thinks this is worth committing to SVN? I find myself using it
quite a bit in my own work - different fields have different ideas
about the "right" way to draw a histogram, so it's good to have
options, I think...
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Erik Tollerud <eri...@gm...> wrote:
> I've made some alterations to the hist() function in axes.py (attached
> is a diff against the current SVN version). I've added the capability
> to use the same interface to make outline histograms instead of bar
> histograms (and a third option for outlines with fill - note that this
> is NOT the same as calling it twice with the other two, as the widths
> are slightly different). There's a slight compatibility issue in that
> as it stands in that the returned tuple now has 4 values (I added a
> list of the lines that are generated if the steps command is used),
> but I can't really imagine how that could break anything but the
> poorest-written code... Anyone think this is worth committing to SVN?
>
> (One thing that bothers me a little is the part of the code that adds
> the last two edges to the histogram - the problem is that if you have
> a line size greater than 1, the outline overshoots the rest of the
> outline by a very tiny bit... if anyone knows how to cut off the upper
> row of pixels to make it flush with the rest of the outline... it's
> perfectly usable as-is, though - that's just a tiny little aesthetic
> quibble)
>
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