Eric Firing wrote: > Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Hi Sam, >> >> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:35, sam tygier <sam...@ya...> wrote: >>> I think this topic has come up before, but i don't think anything has >>> resulted from it. >>> > Correct, because the capability would require a *lot* of work to > implement, and most of us don't see a compelling need; we believe that a > better practice is to structure one's work so that plotting is separated > from data (result) generation in any cases where the latter is highly > time-consuming. One nice benefit, however, would be that the data could be shipped to another interpreter for plotting without worrying about threads/GIL/etc. So, having an MPL-native plot description would be useful. But, I agree, it would be a lot of work.