[Matplotlib-devel] Pull requests for table.py
Thomas Caswell
tcaswell at gmail.com
Thu Jun 13 12:03:51 EDT 2019
John,
I will also add that if you want to got the stand-alone package route we
can put the repo under the Matplotlib org and give you full control of it.
Tom
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 11:51 AM Antony Lee <antony.lee at institutoptique.fr>
wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for your writeup. It provides an interesting historical view on
> one of the oldest parts of the Matplotlib codebase, which is always nice
> read about.
>
> It is great that you intend to work again on table.py (which was mostly
> abandoned by the other core devs), but I am not sure to what extent the new
> API you propose has been stabilized, or whether you are still experimenting
> with it. There are also other issues with the API design (e.g.
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/12931) that you may,
> perhaps, want to revisit?
>
> As you may have noticed, making backwards incompatible changes to
> Matplotlib is a bit of an onerous process (due to the deprecation process,
> the baseline images problem, etc.). Given that table.py is fairly
> self-contained, perhaps you may want to consider moving it to its own
> separate package? i.e. something published separately on PyPI (let us know
> if you need any help for that), so that one would do (for example)
>
> from mpltable import table
> table(...)
>
>
> This way you can play with the API in whatever way you want, and we could
> just point to your package as the "new, more modern" way to make tables
> with Matplotlib, and possibly import it back to the main repo as a single
> PR once everything is stabilized.
>
> Antony
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 5:01 PM swfiua at gmail.com <swfiua at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just wanted to provide some background on the recent flurry of fixes to
>> table.py and the history behind the code.
>>
>> See attached pdf.
>>
>> There are 3 main themes to the changes:
>>
>> * better automatic setting of the font size
>> * change how horizontal padding around cell text is calculated
>> * add ability to specify cell edge colours
>>
>> John
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