Jeff, John,
I have committed to CVS a set of changes that fix the recent bug in contourf when called with the colors kwarg, and that I hope will make contour.py and everything that uses it easier to understand and use. The CHANGELOG entry is:
2005-09-25 contour.py modified to use a single ContourSet class
that handles filled contours, line contours, and labels;
added keyword arg (clip_ends) to contourf.
Colorbar modified to work with new ContourSet object;
if the ContourSet has lines rather than polygons, the
colorbar will follow suit. Fixed a bug introduced in
0.84, in which contourf(...,colors=...) was broken - EF
and the API_CHANGES entry is:
Changed the internal structure of contour.py to a more OO style.
Calls to contour or contourf in axes.py or pylab.py now return
a ContourSet object which contains references to the
LineCollections or PolyCollections created by the call,
as well as the configuration variables that were used.
The ContourSet object is a "mappable" if a colormap was used.
Added a clip_ends kwarg to contourf. From the docstring:
* clip_ends = True
If False, the limits for color scaling are set to the
minimum and maximum contour levels.
True (default) clips the scaling limits. Example:
if the contour boundaries are V = [-100, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 100],
then the scaling limits will be [-100, 100] if clip_ends
is False, and [-3, 3] if clip_ends is True.
Changed Figure.colorbar():
kw argument order changed;
if mappable arg is a non-filled ContourSet, colorbar() shows
lines instead of polygons.
if mappable arg is a filled ContourSet with clip_ends=True,
the endpoints are not labelled, so as to give the
correct impression of open-endedness.
Changed LineCollection.get_linewidths to get_linewidth, for
consistency.
basemap.diff_Nuw (5.27 KB)
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The change in contour and contourf output breaks basemap. I have made the necessary changes in my working copy; the diff against CVS is attached. If it is OK with you, Jeff, I will commit this change. Or if you would rather make the modifications yourself, let me know.
What all this implies is that the next time there is a release of mpl there needs to be a simultaneous basemap release, and users will need to be warned to update both.
Eric