Astropy: Plotting the output of astropy.stats.histogram

[mgennaro]

Hi all,

first of all, thanks for the nice methods that you guys have implemented for the histogram. Knuth and blocks, in particular, are so useful, you saved my day a couple of times.

However, I just wanted to mention a minor issue.
I think it would be great to a have a feature that would help plotting the output of the astropy histogram in somethin like a one-liner.
What I usually do is:

hist,bin_ed = histogram(mydata,...more options....,bins='knuth')

And then

for k,h in enumerate(hist):
       ax.add_patch(patches.Rectangle((bin_ed[k], 0), bin_ed[k+1]-bin_ed[k],  h, 
                       ...more options...))

Now, wouldn't it be great to be able to have the matplolib plotting capabilities and the astropy histogram bin computing feature together?
Something like:

ax.plot_this_astropy_object_and_make_it_look_like_the_default_histogram(myastropy_bayesian_blocks_histogram_object)

I am not even sure this is an issue for astropy, maybe it is rather a matplotlib one, but I'd like some feedback on my request.

Thanks,
Mario

[astrofrog]

What about http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/visualization/histogram.html? :)

[mgennaro]

Oh wow,
that was easy ;)

Thanks a lot...I'll let the STScI python users know that this exists....because they didn;t know, or at least me and several others of them !
Mario