CHANGES

CHANGELOG
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** 05/08/2014 , v0.9.4 **
	- kaplot.defaults also imports any settings defined in ~/.kaplotdefaults.rc transparently.

** 04/28/2014 , v0.9.3 **
	- kaplot initization optionally takes settings as list
	- Addition of `markers` default which produces plots with only markers

** 04/11/2014 , v0.9.2 **
	- linestyle and linewidth kwargs are consistent (ls and lw)
	- updated docstring for add_rectangle

** 04/02/2014 , v0.9 **
	- Enhancements and fixes for pypi compatibility

** 04/01/2014 , v0.8 **
	- docs improvements
	- made into packages (ie folders, init.py and setup.py)
	- setup.py ready for putting on pypi
	- backend switching
	- kaplot.defaults submodule, and full custom settings implementation 
	  (done in the settings dictionary of dictionary style)
	- bump to version 0.8

** 03/26/2014 , v0.7 **
	-	added add_arrow to add arrows to the figure
	- 	added bar type plots to all layers, use set_plot_type('bar') and add_plotdata
		* see docstring for details
	-	rewrote a portion of makePlot , could still use work to make it neater

** 03/24/2014 , v0.6 **
	-	added spline to add_plotdata: kwargs - spline,sp_order,sp_smooth,sp_points
	-	added scipy.interpolate and numpy.linspace imports for spline to work

** 03/24/2104 , v0.5 **
	-	changed makePlot so that add_plotdata and add_rectangle are near the ends
	- 	added add_rectangle()
	- 	changed add_plotdata() to avoid overwriting user specified
	- 	updated color_marker_fill_index() to take lists to compare compare against
	- 	removed functools import
	-	changed check_name() args to work with new @decorator (ugh)
		notes : no plans to add text to add_rectangle , see options for matplotlib.pyplot.axhspan()

** 03/05/2014 , v0.4a **
	*	Morning Session *
	-	added color_marker_fill_index() to makePlot() in order to fix the 
		color/marker/fill selector bug
	-	added the ability to select any color map (cmap) available to MPL
		as optional arguement to set_unique_colors()

** 03/04/2014 , v0.3 **
	- 	made changes to update_default_kwargs so that when value='Auto' those values are not included
		and the plot resorts to default MPL behavior
	-	fixed various bugs, including tick formatting bugs
	-	changed dictionaries to use 'Auto' so that rcParams are used by default
	- 	updated saveObj()

** 03/03/2014 , v0.2 **
	- 	documentation added to functions
	- 	check_name now returns all lowercase kwargs
	- 	added saveObj() ; which uses pickle. to be tested.
	- 	ls/lw now standard in all dictionaries
	- 	adjusted tight layout values for subplots

** 03/02/2014 , v0.1 **
	- 	initial release