[yt-dev] Why does ProjectionPlot not take and pass **kwargs

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Yi-Hao Chen <yihaochentw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am wondering why ProjectionPlot (and others) do not take all the keyword
> arguments and pass them to PWViewerMPL and PlotWindow. For example,
> currently there is no way to set buff_size at the creation of a plot. One
> has to call .set_buff_size after the plot was created.
>
> I am thinking about leaving only the arguments specific to ProjectionPlot
> explicitly, and use **kwargs to pass all other arguments to PlotWindow. But
> if there are reasons not to do this, please let me know.
>

This is on purpose, to reduce the API complexity. ProjectionPlot already
has a huge number of keyword arguments, adding more will only make it
harder to discover functionality.

I'd be much more interested in figuring out ways to make the setters more
intuitive - possibly by exposing plot attributes as descriptors?


>
> Thanks!
> Yi-Hao
>
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