Undefined elements in axes module

[NelleV]

Dixit pyflakes, there are several undefined elements in the axes module:

• The method Axes.__pick (line 3240) calls test, which isn't defined
• The method Axes.dist (line 3221) calls Patch and Text which haven't been imported

Thanks,
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[pelson]

I've labelled these as bugs. It may be that there are no code paths to trigger them, in which case, we can just remove the code.

Thanks for raising @NelleV .

[NelleV]

I still don't know what to do here: I tend to think that as the code does not work since 2006, we should probably remove it (less code to maintain is always a good thing).

Maybe @efiring, being the author of this code, can comment on this.

[efiring]

Rip out the entire __pick() method. Everything down to the "### Labelling" comment. The sooner the better. I don't know how it survived so long--probably because axes.py is so huge that obsolete junk like this can hide in it for years.

I'm not actually the author of this; I come up with "blame" because of a fairly large reorganization of axes.py that I did long ago--basically shuffling things around so that I could find things.