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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"update_*() batch methods","articleBody":"Given that `px` produces figures which often have non-trivial numbers of fairly 'regular' axes/annotations/traces, it would be very convenient to have something like `Figure.update_traces( \u003cpatch\u003e, \u003cselector\u003e )`-type methods e.g. \r\n\r\n```python\r\npx.scatter(..., marginal_y=\"violin\").update_traces(\r\n    patch=dict(marker_line_color=\"black\"), \r\n    selector=dict(type=\"scatter\")\r\n)\r\n```\r\n\r\nIn this example, `px.scatter()` generates some `scatter` traces but also some `violin` ones, so the patch will only apply to the `scatter` traces. Also note that this example uses some magic-underscores from #1481 \r\n\r\nThis would also be very convenient for changing axis-level attributes in the case of a facetted `px` plot with many axes, ditto the `annotation`-based facet titles etc. In fact, I could see this being useful pretty much anywhere we have a collection of things either in a list (annotations, traces, shapes, etc) or with a number suffix (xaxis, yaxis, geo, scene, etc).\r\n\r\nA more uniform API where all the method are called `batch_update` like `Figure.data.batch_update()` or `Figure.layout.xaxis.batch_update()` might work as well? The latter case maybe less nice, but there is no \"collection\" of x-axes on which to attach the method there :)","author":{"url":"https://github.com/nicolaskruchten","@type":"Person","name":"nicolaskruchten"},"datePublished":"2019-03-28T19:51:11.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/1484/plotly.py/issues/1484"}