René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Change return type get_{x,y}ticklabels to plain list","articleBody":"Its fairly often that I use `get_xticklabels` and other similar methods when exploring and visualizing data with matplotlib. I almost always use `list(ax.get_xticklabels())` or `ax.get_xticklabels()[0]` to view. When teaching, it's also much nicer to be able to see some of the labels without this workaround. One of the main purposes of the getter methods is to actually see a nice underlying representation of the object.\r\n\r\nI see from the docstrings that the purpose of `silent_list` is to silence the repr, but perhaps this can change.  `get_xticks` returns an array. `get_lines` and `get_labels` return a silent list.\r\n\r\nIs the silent list even necessary?","author":{"url":"https://github.com/tdpetrou","@type":"Person","name":"tdpetrou"},"datePublished":"2020-03-23T17:46:36.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":7},"url":"https://github.com/16885/matplotlib/issues/16885"}