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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[MNT]: Streamline mpltoolkits.axes_grid.Grid API","articleBody":"### Summary\n\nThe current interface is neither very intuitive nor practical nor in line with the traditional gridspec logic.\n\n### Proposed fix\n\nHalf a note to self, because this is not completely thought through:\n\n- The parameter `ngrids` seems not to be working (usage raises)\n- The attributes `ngrids` is not helpful. It's misnomed (naxes would be better), and it's equivalent to `len(grid)` or `len(grid.axes_all)`.\n- Not sure what we need `grid.axes_llc` for. That seems quite specific.\n- The 2D grid arrangement `axes_row`, `axes_column` are lists of lists. In contrast `subplots` returns an array. Thus, you need double indexing `grid.axes_row[row][col}` and cannot use the multi-index `axs[row, col]`.\n- Having the `direction` parameter and `grid.axes_row`, `grid.axes_column` is basically two redundant approaches towards ordering.\n\nPossible improvements:\n- \u003cs\u003edeprecate `ngrids` attribute\u003c/s\u003e - replaced by #27972\n- add an attribute `grid.axes` or maybe even  `grid.axs` (in analogy to `fig, axs = plt.subplots(2, 3)`), which is a ndarray of the Axes. Hence one could do `grid.axs[row, column]`.\n- maybe (??) soft-deprecate axes_all, axes_row, axes_col, direction?\n-  in `Grid.__init__` make everything after `nrows_ncols` kw-only\n- would be nice to have a default `rect`, but that requires reorganizing parameter order because that's before `nrows_ncols`.\n  Might be possible migrate\n  ```\n  def __init__(self, fig, rect, nrows_ncols, *, ...)\n  ```\n  to \n  ```\n  def __init__(self, nrows_ncols, *, rect, ...)\n  ```\n  with reasonable deprecation warnings and catching inappropriate use. - But would have to think this through","author":{"url":"https://github.com/timhoffm","@type":"Person","name":"timhoffm"},"datePublished":"2024-03-22T16:00:31.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":12},"url":"https://github.com/27963/matplotlib/issues/27963"}