Next API changes#
- Behavior change template
- All Axes have
get_subplotspecandget_gridspecmethods now, which returns None for Axes not positioned via a gridspec HostAxesBase.get_aux_axesnow defaults to using the same base axes class as the host axesplt.get_cmapandmatplotlib.cm.get_cmapreturn a copyTrapezoidMapTriFinderuses different random number generatorFuncAnimation(save_count=None)CenteredNormhalfrange is not modified when vcenter changesfig.subplot_mosaicno longer passes thegridspec_kwargs to nested gridspecs.HPackeralignment with bottom or top are now correct- On Windows only fonts known to the registry will be discovered
QuadMesh.set_arraynow always raisesValueErrorfor inputs with incorrect shapescontourandcontourfauto-select suitable levels when given boolean inputsAxesImage.set_extentnow raisesTypeErrorfor unknown keyword argumentscontourno longer warns if no contour lines are drawn.- TwoSlopeNorm now auto-expands to always have two slopes
- Streamplot now draws streamlines as one piece if no width or no color variance
- Change of
legend(loc="best")behavior - Template for deprecations
CursorandMultiCursorevent handlers are now privatepassthru_ptaxes3d.vvec,axes3d.eye,axes3d.sx, andaxes3d.sy- Deprecation aliases in cbook
AXessubclasses should overrideclearinstead ofcladraw_gouraud_trianglematplotlib.pyplot.get_plot_commandsmatplotlib.trisubmodules are deprecated- Passing undefined label_mode to
Grid - Colorbars for orphaned mappables are deprecated, but no longer raise
Animationattributescontour.ClabelTextandContourLabeler.set_label_propsContourLabelerattributesbackend_ps.PsBackendHelperandbackend_ps.ps_backend_helperbackend_webagg.ServerThreadis deprecatedparse_fontconfig_patternwill no longer ignore unknown constant namesBufferRegion.to_stringandBufferRegion.to_string_argbnum2julian,julian2numandJULIAN_OFFSETunit_cube,tunit_cube, andtunit_edges- Most arguments to widgets have been made keyword-only
SimpleEventRadioButtons.circlesOffsetBox.get_extent_offsetsandOffsetBox.get_extentCheckButtons.rectanglesandCheckButtons.lineslegend.legendHandlesticklabelsparameter ofAxis.set_ticklabelsrenamed tolabelsoffsetbox.bbox_artistQuiver.quiver_docandBarbs.barbs_doc- rcParams type
- Deprecate unused parameter x to
TextBox.begin_typing - Deprecation of top-level cmap registration and access functions in
mpl.cm BrokenBarHCollectionis deprecated- Passing inconsistent
locandnth_coordto axisartist helpers bbox.anchored()with no explicit container- Functions in
mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.proj3d - Arguments other than
renderertoget_tightbbox - Development change template
- pyparsing>=2.3.1 is now required
- importlib_resources>=2.3.0 is now required on Python<3.10
- Support for Qt<5.10 has been dropped
- Windows wheel runtime bundling
- numpy>=1.20 is now required
- Maximum line length increased to 88 characters
- Increase to minimum supported versions of dependencies
- Removal change template
- plot directive removals
- Miscellaneous removals
epoch2numandnum2epochare removed- Locator and Formatter wrapper methods
- Interactive cursor details
auto_add_to_figure=TrueforAxes3D- The first parameter of
Axes.gridandAxis.gridhas been renamed to visible - Removal of deprecations in the Selector widget API
backend_template.show- Unused positional parameters to
print_<fmt>methods QuadMeshsignature- Expiration of
FancyBboxPatchdeprecations - cbook removals
- Groupers from
get_shared_x_axes/get_shared_y_axesare immutable - Testing support
- Auto-removal of grids by
pcolorandpcolormesh - Modification of
Axeschildren sublists - Passing incorrect types to
Axes.add_*methods ConversionInterface.convertno longer accepts unitless values- Normal list of
Artistobjects now returned byHandlerLine2D.create_artists - rcParams will no longer cast inputs to str
- Case-insensitive scales
- Support for
nx1 = Noneorny1 = NoneinAxesLocatorandDivider.locate - change signature of
.FigureCanvasBase.enter_notify_event Colorbartick update parameters- Deprecated modules removed