This line came in viab2a80a7 /#1589 . It looks like everything still passes without it (!!) so I think that means either we never needed it or the work done since then on the colorbar code has made it redundant.

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Has pytest style unit tests (andpytest passes).
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[N/A ] New features are documented, with examples if plot related.
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Looks, good, though I don't understand why you added an import 😉

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		fig=Figure()
		ax=fig.gca()

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	fig=Figure()
	ax=fig.gca()
	fig,ax=plt.subplots()

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tacaswell commentedSep 8, 2020

I was intentionally writing the tests to not invoke the pyplot machinery to see how it feels.

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jklymak commentedSep 8, 2020

I was intentionally writing the tests to not invoke the pyplot machinery to see how it feels.

It feels like you had to do an extra import for no good reason. 😉 I'm not blocking, but I'd usefig.add_subplots() rather thangca() if we want to develop good grammar for this?

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timhoffm commentedSep 22, 2020

I'm ok with the extra import, but agree, thatfig.add_subplots() would be better thangca(), the latter being too pyploty.

On a general note: What is the motivation to leave out pyplot? Is there a perfromance benefit, or is it the desire to reduce the dependency on pyplot. Is there a plan to move larger parts of the tests away from pyplot?