Introduction

This is a tiny document to specify where the different Python plotting modules should go and what namespaces should be used for them.

Proposed changes for 3.4

Main changes

Bring future.pyplot out of future and import it as pyplot. In mantidplotrc.py or in mantidplot.py (imported from there) there would an import like this:

import pymantidplot.pyplot
from pymantidplot.pyplot import *

to import the module and bring it into the standard MantidPlot namespace.

This will cause at least one name clash with the traditional mantidplot plot() function. This function could be moved into a (new) module qtiplot which would be also imported in mantidplotrc.py.
As the change from plot() to qtiplot.plot() breaks backwards compatibility, the documentation (and also course material, etc.) needs to be checked and updated.

Additional changes

For the names of the tools in the plot commands, there will be aliases with and without the tool_ prefix, and for the spectrum tool there will be a shorter alias: sp.