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Further improve backend tutorial. #14995

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@anntzer anntzer commented Aug 6, 2019

  1. Don't do use("ps") (in practice one never needs to set that backend
    manually as we autoswitch to "ps" when saving a postscript); instead
    have use("qt5agg") as example.
  2. The requirement to call use() before importing pyplot is obsolete.
    Actually even "use() needs to be called before creating any figure"
    is a bit too restrictive because switching to noninteractive backends
    is always possible... but no need to go into this in the intro
    tutorial.
  3. Reword description of "default" backend selection.

followup to #14549.

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  • Has Pytest style unit tests
  • Code is Flake 8 compliant
  • New features are documented, with examples if plot related
  • Documentation is sphinx and numpydoc compliant
  • Added an entry to doc/users/next_whats_new/ if major new feature (follow instructions in README.rst there)
  • Documented in doc/api/api_changes.rst if API changed in a backward-incompatible way

1) Don't do `use("ps")` (in practice one never needs to set that backend
   manually as we autoswitch to "ps" when saving a postscript); instead
   have `use("qt5agg")` as example.
2) The requirement to call `use()` before importing pyplot is obsolete.
   Actually even "use() needs to be called before creating any figure"
   is a bit too restrictive because switching to noninteractive backends
   is always possible... but no need to go into this in the intro
   tutorial.
3) Reword description of "default" backend selection.
@QuLogic QuLogic added this to the v3.2.0 milestone Aug 7, 2019
@QuLogic QuLogic merged commit a82914a into matplotlib:master Aug 7, 2019
@anntzer anntzer deleted the usagetut branch August 7, 2019 22:08
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