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Consider a possible "methods-based" interface.

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I have heard it said that plotnine is "not Pythonic". I explore this claim here and I conclude that perhaps the claim is strongest with the need to either say from plotnine import * (or at least from plotnine import [lots of things]) or make the code ugly with import plotnine as p9 and then p9.ggplot(p9.aes()) + p9.geom() + ....

With the help of Codex, I made a feature branch that provides a more "methods-based" interface on a fork here. The code changes seem quite non-invasive.

I think the "methods-based" code looks quite Pythonic. I also made a demo site here and everything seems to "just work" so far.

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Start by reviewing the linked codex-fluent-api feature branch and the demo site, then compare its methods-based interface with plotnine's current public API. The issue provides no repository files or tests to target; done would require defining and agreeing on the intended interface and its scope before implementation.

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Tech stack
python
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data-visualization
Issue type
Feature
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Needs clarification
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