remove plotly plot from api

[arsenovic]

is there a way to delete a plotly plot using the python api?

[arsenovic]

....?

[theengineear]

@arsenovic , no there's currently not a way to do this. We've talked about it a bit though.

@chriddyp, @alexcjohnson, should we allow this though clientresp? I don't think it would take too much time. This along with adding collaborators would be really nice additions for remote access.

[alexcjohnson]

Definitely we should allow this... lets roll it into the coming API revision instead of building it on top of something that's about to change. Actually I thought these were already in the discussion https://github.com/plotly/Contributors-Guide/blob/master/data-model/data-api/README.md but I don't see them now. @theengineear you want to flesh this out?

[theengineear]

@alexcjohnson , yeah i'll throw that in there tonight! I agree with just adding it to the new API instead of trying to squeeze it into what we've got now.

[coffenbacher]

Is this still in progress? Would be a helpful feature!

[chriddyp]

@coffenbacher yes it is, but it's a still a few months out. In the meantime, you can prevent the proliferation of graphs by overwriting existing graphs by specifying the same filename:

py.plot(figure, filename='temp')

[coffenbacher]

Great, thanks, that's the approach I'm using.

[theengineear]

There's support for this in the REST API now, so this should be more doable.

[cldougl]

Example of deleting a plot from python https://plot.ly/python/delete-plots/