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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion tutorials/introductory/lifecycle.py
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In general, try to use the object-oriented interface over the pyplot
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In general, try to use the object-oriented interface over the pyplot
In general, the explicit interface is preferred over the pyplot

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That would require rephrasing the earlier paragraphs in the tutorial as well. That may be a good thing to do but wasn't my intention here. Is this enough of an incremental improvement to stand on its own?

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explicit object-oriented..?

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That's better but it is still a break from how the opening paragraph describes things. But perhaps Im worrying too much about that

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Maybe fix the first parapraph while we are here? It is not terribly clear.

interface.
interface for making the plots. However, for creating figures and axes
the pyplot interface with `~.pyplot.subplots` should be preferred.
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interface for making the plots. However, for creating figures and axes
the pyplot interface with `~.pyplot.subplots` should be preferred.
interface for making the plots. The `~.pyplot` module still has some useful
shortcuts, and in particular is the preferable method for instantiating figures
and axes via ``fig=plt.figure()`` or ``fig, axs=plt.subplots(2, 1)``.

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I like this.


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