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What is the difference between the Figure and the Charts objects

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Ivan_Petrov
Ivan_Petrov

The plotting interface creates a bokeh.plotting.figure.Figure object. The charts interface creates bokeh.charts.chart.Chart objects. These two object types look pretty similar. What is the difference between them? Is one a subclass or a container of another? Can I use the plotting interface to add glyphs to a graph created using charts?

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Bryan
Bryan

Hi,

Both are subsets of Plot, which is the class that represents every kind of plot on the JavaScript side. As of recent releases, the glyph methods, .circle, etc. have also been added to Chart for convenience. For more information about the different APIs please refer to

  http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/concepts.html

Thanks,

Bryan

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On Dec 5, 2016, at 3:13 AM, 'Ivan Petrov' via Bokeh Discussion - Public <bokeh@continuum.io> wrote:

The `plotting` interface creates a `bokeh.plotting.figure.Figure` object. The charts interface creates `bokeh.charts.chart.Chart` objects. These two object types look pretty similar. What is the difference between them? Is one a subclass or a container of another? Can I use the `plotting` interface to add glyphs to a graph created using `charts`?

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