ENH: Made fields private in response to review comments

madphysicist · madphysicist · commit 836a34d46555 · 2016-11-28T14:49:48.000-05:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/ticker.py b/lib/matplotlib/ticker.py
@@ -1325,10 +1325,10 @@ class IntegerFormatter(StrMethodFormatter):
     ``integer=True``.
     """
     def __init__(self, fmt, unsigned=False, bits=None):
-        self.unsigned = unsigned
+        self._unsigned = bool(unsigned)
         if bits is not None:
             bits = int(bits)
-        self.bits = bits
+        self._bits = bits
         super(IntegerFormatter, self).__init__(fmt)
 
     def transform(self, x):
@@ -1342,13 +1342,14 @@ def transform(self, x):
         Returns the transformed number.
         """
         x = int(x)
-        if x < 0 and self.unsigned:
-            bits = (-x).bit_length() if self.bits is None else self.bits
+        if x < 0 and self._unsigned:
+            bits = (-x).bit_length() if self._bits is None else self._bits
             x = x & ((1 << bits) - 1)
         return x
 
     def __call__(self, x, pos=None):
-        return super(IntegerFormatter, self).__call__(self.transform(x), pos)
+        return super(IntegerFormatter, self).__call__(x=self.transform(x),
+                                                      pos=pos)
 
 
 class LinearScaleFormatter(Formatter):
