René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"2.0.0 Wishlist","articleBody":"@chriddyp @Kully @cldougl \r\n\r\nI haven't had many cycles to play around with the python api library lately, but recently got in a little deep for https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/640, where we've now got *fully-unified* api modules.\r\n\r\nI think enough shifted (mostly additions, but the error handling is definitely not backwards compat) that we should open up a discussion on non-minor changes that we've been looking to add to the plotly module. Here's a list of topics:\r\n\r\n- [x] API request/response unification (https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/651)\r\n- [ ] Fix or drop support for matplotlib\r\n- [x] Add `numpy` as an official dep. and use it to speed up the library. (#667)\r\n- [x]  Related to above, clean up how we handle optional imports (https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/317)\r\n- [x] Stop auto-loading graph reference and just use packaged graph reference (https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/614)**\r\n- [x] ~~Add transforms to graph objects (https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/issues/587)~~ holding off on this until the transforms spec settles in plotly.js.\r\n- [x] Add frames for graph objects (https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/issues/604)\r\n- [x] Add a sign_in validation #525 (#668)\r\n- [x] ~~Fix up streaming? (this might be more work than it's worth at this point https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/253)~~ No time for this atm.\r\n- [x] Some module re-organizing. Most importantly, we should move FigureFactory into it's own sub-package and each Figure-generator should be it's own file. The `tools.py` module is enormous and is a constant point of pain for circular imports (https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/652).\r\n\r\n**In fact, if we *do* do this, we can just add some meta programming to auto-create a module full of all the objects from graph-reference. This way we don't have those dump \"Scatter is not defined\" errors, etc.\r\n\r\nAnything else? ","author":{"url":"https://github.com/theengineear","@type":"Person","name":"theengineear"},"datePublished":"2016-12-29T23:17:47.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":21},"url":"https://github.com/642/plotly.py/issues/642"}