I just removed the last vestiges of the numerix extension code layer. The conditional imports are gone from the extension code, the -D flags are gone from the compile, as is the _ns_ module naming scheme. This is a fairly major change, so please blow away your install and build dirs after updating to r3513 I also numpified axes.py, by far the biggest and most complicated module, and fixed all of the imports as we discussed in an earlier thread. One problem I ran into. With the proposed from matplotlib import lines # and friends there is a lot of possibility for name clashes. Eg, in some places we also have a variable names "lines", which isn't life threatening but certainly can lead to confusion and bugs. Or for module legend, we also have an Axes function.legend. I decided to go with a foolish consistency that was unambiguous: from matplotlib import artist as mpl_artist from matplotlib import agg as mpl_agg from matplotlib import axis as mpl_axis from matplotlib import cbook as mpl_cbook from matplotlib import collections as mpl_collections from matplotlib import colors as mpl_colors from matplotlib import contour as mpl_contour and then mpl_cbook.iterable # and so on Because the mpl_ prefix occurs nowhere else, we can easily change this to whatever we want with a single search replace. I also added a module mpl which simply imports all the modules, so API or pylab users can >>> from pylab import mpl or >>> from matplotlib import mpl and have all of the API in one place (mpl.dates, mpl.figure, mpl.ticker, etc...) -- nice with tab completion an online help in ipython when you aren't sure where to find something.... I was hoping we could use this in the matplotlib code itself. Eg if axes could import mpl, then we could replace the somewhat ugly mpl_cbook with the nice and pretty mpl.cbook, but there is the problem of recursive imports. Is there a way to do this with some python magic, so that one "mpl" API module could serve all of the modules? Something in the back of my mind is telling me there is something in EGGS with an api module..... Any ideas? JDH