Changes for 0.42 ================ .. code-block:: text * Refactoring AxisText to be backend independent. Text drawing and get_window_extent functionality will be moved to the Renderer. * backend_bases.AxisTextBase is now text.Text module * All the erase and reset functionality removed from AxisText - not needed with double buffered drawing. Ditto with state change. Text instances have a get_prop_tup method that returns a hashable tuple of text properties which you can use to see if text props have changed, e.g., by caching a font or layout instance in a dict with the prop tup as a key -- see RendererGTK.get_pango_layout in backend_gtk for an example. * Text._get_xy_display renamed Text.get_xy_display * Artist set_renderer and wash_brushes methods removed * Moved Legend class from matplotlib.axes into matplotlib.legend * Moved Tick, XTick, YTick, Axis, XAxis, YAxis from matplotlib.axes to matplotlib.axis * moved process_text_args to matplotlib.text * After getting Text handled in a backend independent fashion, the import process is much cleaner since there are no longer cyclic dependencies * matplotlib.matlab._get_current_fig_manager renamed to matplotlib.matlab.get_current_fig_manager to allow user access to the GUI window attribute, e.g., figManager.window for GTK and figManager.frame for wx