Changed cbook.is_file_like to cbook.is_writable_file_like and
corrected behavior.
Added ax keyword argument to pyplot.colorbar() and
Figure.colorbar() so that one can specify the axes object from
which space for the colorbar is to be taken, if one does not want to
make the colorbar axes manually.
Changed cbook.reversed so it yields a tuple rather than a (index, tuple).
This agrees with the Python reversed builtin, and cbook only defines reversed
if Python doesn't provide the builtin.
Made skiprows=1 the default on csv2rec
The gd and paint backends have been deleted.
The errorbar method and function now accept additional kwargs
so that upper and lower limits can be indicated by capping the
bar with a caret instead of a straight line segment.
The matplotlib.dviread file now has a parser for files like
psfonts.map and pdftex.map, to map TeX font names to external files.
The file matplotlib.type1font contains a new class for Type 1
fonts. Currently it simply reads pfa and pfb format files and
stores the data in a way that is suitable for embedding in pdf
files. In the future the class might actually parse the font to
allow e.g., subsetting.
matplotlib.ft2font now supports FT_Attach_File. In
practice this can be used to read an afm file in addition to a
pfa/pfb file, to get metrics and kerning information for a Type 1
font.
The AFM class now supports querying CapHeight and stem
widths. The get_name_char method now has an isord kwarg like
get_width_char.
Changed pcolor() default to shading='flat'; but as noted now in
the docstring, it is preferable to simply use the edgecolor keyword
argument.
The mathtext font commands (\cal, \rm, \it, \tt) now
behave as TeX does: they are in effect until the next font change
command or the end of the grouping. Therefore uses of $\cal{R}$
should be changed to ${\calR}$. Alternatively, you may use the
new LaTeX-style font commands (\mathcal, \mathrm,
\mathit, \mathtt) which do affect the following group,
e.g., $\mathcal{R}$.
Text creation commands have a new default linespacing and a new
linespacing kwarg, which is a multiple of the maximum vertical
extent of a line of ordinary text. The default is 1.2;
linespacing=2 would be like ordinary double spacing, for example.
Changed default kwarg in matplotlib.colors.Normalize to clip=False;
clipping silently defeats the purpose of the special over, under,
and bad values in the colormap, thereby leading to unexpected
behavior. The new default should reduce such surprises.
Made the emit property of set_xlim() and
set_ylim()True by default; removed
the Axes custom callback handling into a 'callbacks' attribute which
is a CallbackRegistry instance. This now
supports the 'xlim_changed' and 'ylim_changed' Axes events.
