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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"should cm be renamed to colormaps?","articleBody":"It's a bit confusing to have a proper module have such a short, non-descriptive name.\n\nLooking at code that uses it, if one were to see `from matplotlib import cm` - they'd be left wondering what those two letters could possibly stand for. Then further down, they'd see it being used with a keyword argument that would shed some light, such as `cmap = cm.RdBu`, and they would maybe go through the steps of \"oh, it's a map... probably a color map\"...maybe...\n\nIf the import code was written as `from matplotlib import colormaps as cm`, it'd be more clear. We would retain the dangling `plt.cm` and have a dummy `matplotlib.cm` module which would just import everything from `matplotlib.colormaps`.\n\nas a bonus, I think `plt.colormaps` should be retained, but the code and documentation for it should live inside this new colormaps module.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ivanov","@type":"Person","name":"ivanov"},"datePublished":"2012-11-10T09:23:12.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/1476/matplotlib/issues/1476"}