Tim Hoffmann

Friends, the relation between `plot` and `scatter` *is* messy for historic reasons, partly originating even from MATLAB. Just complaining that it's unintuitive or insisting on one certain ill-fitting point of...

> Would it be worth adding a second entry for `plot` in [plot types](https://matplotlib.org/stable/plot_types/index#pairwise-data) showing a scatter plot? Cross post :smile: . Yes! See my comment above.

While this is getting quite off-topic, I just want to note that you can have half-filled markers in `scatter`. ``` import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.markers import MarkerStyle import numpy...

A fundamental issue with the marker handling in `scatter()` is that the underlying artist is a `PathCollection` and does not know anything about markers. We convert the marker to a...

You're right. I've followed your suggestion.

Side note: We may later allow a list of labels if we want to ease labeling when styling individually, e.g. (currently not working code): ``` bplot = ax.boxplot(fruit_weights, patch_artist=True, legend_labels=labels)...

> I'm unconvinced we would need to support passing multiple legend labels. True. OTOH it doesn't cost us much. And it leaves the theoretical option open to add per-box coloring...

Note: There`s currently `labels` (plural). If anything the new one would be `label` (singular). So strictly there's no overlap. But - if you don't rename `labels`, as said above having...

Disregarding the existing API and how we would migrate, would `label` + `tick_labels` be good? - yes in terms of API consistency - meh in terms of `label` is generic...

Note to self/ to whoever is interested (I haven't made up my mind on this yet): Should `positions` also support str labels - in other functions we allow str as...