properties instead of set_ and get_ #2674
Description
this is a possibly unrealistic feature request
one thing that annoyed me in using mpl from day 1 and continues to annoy me years later, is the verbose fig.set_, axes.set_ etc. interface.
it would be much nicer to have python properties throughout, so one would type
axes.aspect = 2 instead of axes.set_aspect(2)
i generally cannot remember names of functions and therefore i operate by typing until i can hit TAB in ipython to get completions. with python properties, i would need to type four letters less pretty much every single time i call a matplotlib method.
this is a major change in user interface, and so may be deemed not feasible. but i find it highly desirable. it might be possible to add this to the current way of doing things, and deprecate get_ and set_ only in the loooong run (3.0?)
the .set() methods can save typing and would be kept