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SpanSelector widget: Improve doc for extents #27397

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Explains what the extents are. Addresses my problem here https://discourse.matplotlib.org/t/spanselector-how-to-set-selection-with-code/24114/4

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https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/widgets_api.html#matplotlib.widgets.SpanSelector.extents

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sorry my suggestion made the line too long so you'll have to fix that

@story645 story645 added this to the v3.8.3 milestone Nov 29, 2023
@story645 story645 added the Documentation: API files in lib/ and doc/api label Nov 29, 2023
@@ -2695,7 +2695,7 @@ def _press(self, event):

@property
def direction(self):
"""Direction of the span selector: 'vertical' or 'horizontal'."""
"""Direction of the span selector: 'vertical' or 'horizontal'. Writable."""
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What are you trying to communicate w/ writable?

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The property has a setter. When everything else in matplotlib is set_title() or whatever, I don't take that for granted.

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No guidance here for if properties were actually used. https://matplotlib.org/devdocs/devel/document.html#setters-and-getters

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I think @timhoffm has strong opinions and an open PR on documenting properties #22699

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@judfs can you remove the writable? I don't think it's conveying what you intend to here and I don't want to hold up your PR longer

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Changed 👍 . As a user of mpl, I still would find it non obvious that the property is read/write / settable, but that is a more general issue. For now glad to have what the extents are described.

@story645 story645 merged commit b19a5b8 into matplotlib:main Dec 5, 2023
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story645 commented Dec 5, 2023

Thanks for the contribution! I think there's follow up here, both on how we communicate that something is a property and probably similar to #27200 about adding an extents role to the one place we define extents.

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Backport PR #27397 on branch v3.8.x (SpanSelector widget: Improve doc for `extents`)
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