ENH: add ability to remove layout engine by tacaswell · Pull Request #22452 · matplotlib/matplotlib · GitHub

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This may be too simplistic as it just sets it to None which gives you ability
to "go through zero" and change to an incompatible layout engine.

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Has pytest style unit tests (and pytest passes).
Is Flake 8 compliant (install flake8-docstrings and run flake8 --docstring-convention=all).

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New features are documented, with examples if plot related.
[N/A] New features have an entry in doc/users/next_whats_new/ (follow instructions in README.rst there).
[N/A] API changes documented in doc/api/next_api_changes/ (follow instructions in README.rst there).
Documentation is sphinx and numpydoc compliant (the docs should build without error).

Ping @jklymak are there any traps when removing layouts?

I can't think of any. It just doesn't get run.

I added a NullLayoutEngine despite @anntzer 's concerns because I was worried about

fig. set_layout_engine('tight')
fig.set_layout_engine('none')
fig.set_layout_engine('constrained')

as away of "going through 0" and doing something that we put a bunch of effort into preventing!

I guess I'm not sure about adding a Null engine here. It makes set_layout_engine('none') go through a (slightly) different codepath than never setting the layout engine at all. If we do this, we should probably initialize the figure with this NullLayoutEngine? But I'm not sure why we want to have this at all.

We can not stick a formatter on at init time without making the bools tri-states ({unset, True, False}). This acts as a no-op place holder that remember the colorbar related settings without inventing another side-band way to store that.

Unfortunately I think that "never been set" vs "was set and then removed" are in fact different.

Ah I see - we don't want to switch colorbar behaviour after it has started to be used... So we are turning off the algorithm, but keeping its side effect.

At some point we need to figure out how to ditch the two ways of placing colorbars without breaking everybody.

Doc build error:

WARNING: error while formatting signature for matplotlib.layout_engine.NullLayoutEnigne: Handler <function mangle_signature at 0x7f20ea43a4c0> for event 'autodoc-process-signature' threw an exception (exception: Unknown section Parameter in the docstring of NullLayoutEnigne in /home/circleci/project/lib/matplotlib/layout_engine.py.)

I'll move to draft until the doc error is fixed...

Do we need to have this public?

Can we think of a better name? Something that catches "mirror the behavior of whatever layout engine it is replacing"? Maybe FrozenLayoutEngine or LayoutEngineSnapshot? Also this behavior is the key reason for the existence of the class. It should be prominently in the docstring, not only in the parameter description.

This turns the layout engine off, so I don't think it really freeze the layout manager?

There is a difference between None and NullLayoutEngine, and we have to capture that at least in the docstring but if possible already in the class name. NullLayoutEngine sounds as if it does nothing at all and intuitively I'd have expected that that's equvalent with the initial state None.

NullLayoutEngineLockedColorbarImplimentation is a bit long!

BTW, I think this needs to be public because the user can get it as a result from get_layout_engine. Maybe what is needed is a sentence of explanation for the user in the docs....

On the other hand, NullLayoutEngineLockedColorbarImplimentation is not something we expect a user to ever directly create and it very clear about what is it and communicates to the user something funny is going on.

If we document this publicly then it will also be a very unique search term to land users at the right place in the docs.

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                This is primarily to act as a place holder if we remove a layout engine.
          
                This is acts as a place holder if we remove a layout engine.  However, different layout engines
          
                require different colorbar implementations and some are not compatible with ``subplots_adjust``, 
          
                so this Null engine retains the requirements of the last-used layout engine.

This is an improvement 👍 . Can you make it even more explicit: "different layout engines require different ..." / "some are not compatible". To my knowledge we have exactly two layout engines we are talking about.

True, but the goal of this hook was to make it easy to add more / let external libraries provide their own so I think that leaving this general is the optimistic position.

... moved to draft pending rebase and rename (which I mean, fine, I don't care what the name is)

This also adds a "place holder" layout engine to ensure that users can not "go through zero" and change to an incompatible layout engine. Co-authored-by: Jody Klymak <jklymak@gmail.com>

Is this still draft @tacaswell ?

@jklymak Are you happy with the documentation in this PR?

Still looks fine to me! Thanks,

Were we doing *None*?

We seem to have about the same number of both

$ ack  '\*None\*' -l | wc
     56      56    1865
$ ack  '`None`' -l | wc
     61      61    2223

[edit updated to exclude docs build product]

Co-authored-by: Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst@gmail.com>

tacaswell added this to the v3.6.0 milestone Feb 11, 2022

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fix and test deprecated layout method toggling #22849

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This also adds a "place holder" layout engine to ensure that users can not "go through zero" and change to an incompatible layout engine. Co-authored-by: Jody Klymak <jklymak@gmail.com>

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Co-authored-by: Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst@gmail.com>

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Consolidate release notes for 3.6 #23814

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+                      self._colorbar_gridspec = colorbar_gridspec
+                      super().__init__(**kwargs)
+                  def execute(self, fig):

		raise NotImplementedError


		class NullLayoutEngine(LayoutEngine):

+                          - 'tight' uses `~.TightLayoutEngine`
+                          - 'none' removes layout engine.
+                          If `None`, the behavior is controlled by :rc:`figure.autolayout`

ENH: add ability to remove layout engine by tacaswell · Pull Request #22452 · matplotlib/matplotlib · GitHub

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