Returning matplotlib.figure/axes?

[nipunbatra]

Hi,
For users who want to fiddle around with the produced plot, it would be helpful to return the matplotllib.figure/axis. My use case- I want to give a ylabel to the rows to use in a publication.

[ResidentMario]

Ah, so instead of ending with fig.show(), something like ending with plt.show(); return fig? Good idea; I'll take a look at seaborn to see how it handles that.

[nipunbatra]

Yes, and it'll also allow a user to save the figure to a png or pdf. Also, returning the figure will allow these plots to be interfaced with mpld3 and Plotly.

[ResidentMario]

Ok, so the default seaborn behavior is to both plot the figure and return a matplotlib object of some sort. However, I find this in-ideal, as the returned plot element's return statement pollutes the view:

Note the <matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot at 0x1147a0f0>.

To overcome this in my current build I've added a inline=True argument which hooks into the following method ending:

if inline:
    plt.show()
else:
    return fig.axes

If inline is left alone missingno will draw the plot and no more.

If inline is set to False it will return the axes:

@nipunbatra Do you think this is a good solution?

[ResidentMario]

Addressed prior to 3a5420e.