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Re:Plotnine by sdenton4 on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @10:24AM (#48645446)
kwargs exists, and is rather more pythonic. Just pass the kwargs dict to a standard formatting function, et voila.
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Re:Plotnine by bittumenEntity on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @10:55AM (#48646000)
Sadly, this drive towards the API design that matplotlib resembles, the raison d'etre of this library is the unusual (imho, great) API
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Re:Plotnine by bbminner on Thursday June 25, 2026 @09:23PM (#48681299)
Could you elaborate on what exactly does such syntax provide over kwargs? To me it looks like verbatim x=a, y=b replaced by x(a)+y(b) in the argument section.
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