kwargs exists, and is rather more pythonic. Just pass the kwargs dict to a standard formatting function, et voila.
Sadly, this drive towards the API design that matplotlib resembles, the raison d'etre of this library is the unusual (imho, great) API
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Sadly, this drive towards the API design that matplotlib resembles, the raison d'etre of this library is the unusual (imho, great) API