Suppress yerr drawing globally

[gipert]

Hi, my question might have a trivial answer but I cannot help myself with the docs or the source code. How do I set yerr=None for all histograms with a global option (in matplotlib, I would look for a rcParams key)? Most of the times I'm not interested in displaying error bars, I would be happier if uncertainty bars were not drawn by default. Thanks!

[andrzejnovak]

Hi @gipert I don't think this is currently possible. histplot(..., yerr=False) should turn them of on fcn call basis, but we don't have a global setting for this rn.

We have custom (not heavily used) rcParams for labelling and could use the same logic to turn off error bars by default

mplhep/src/mplhep/__init__.py

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rcParams = Config(

[gipert]

Would be great to have such an option.

Apart from this, why not defaulting to yerr=False? I think pretty much all of the histogram plotting libraries around (first of all, ROOT), do this.

[andrzejnovak]

You're welcome to make a PR or leave this issue open, but it won't be done with any particular priority. I don't think passing histtype and yerr is horribly inconvenient.

I'm a sense it is the default, if you only supply counts and bin edges they aren't automatically computed by default, if you supply a histogram object that carries weights2, the information gets displayed.